A. Lincoln: A Biography

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Everyone wants to define the man who signed his name A Lincoln In his lifetime and ever since friend and foe have taken it upon themselves to characterize Lincoln according to their own label or libel In this magnificent book Ronald C White Jr offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity-what todays commentators would call authenticity-whose moral compass holds the key to understanding his life Through meticulous research of the newly completed Lincoln Legal Papers in addition to of recently came upon letters and photographs White provides a portrait of Lincolns personal political and moral evolution White shows us Lincoln as a man who would leave a trail of thoughts in his wake jotting ideas on scraps of paper and filing them in his top hat or the bottom drawer of his desk a country lawyer who asked questions in an effort to figure out his own thinking on a topic as much as to argue the case a hands-on commander in chief who as soldiers and sailors watched in amazement commandeered a boat and ordered an attack on Confederate shore batteries at the tip of the Virginia peninsula a man who struggled with the immorality of slavery and as president acted publicly and privately to outlaw it eternally and in any case a president involved in a non secular odyssey who wrote for his own eyes only a profound meditation on the will of God in the Civil War that would develop into the basis of his finest address Most enlightening the Abraham Lincoln who comes into focal point in this stellar narrative is a person of intellectual curiosity comfortable with ambiguity unafraid to think anew and act anew A transcendent sweeping passionately written biography that greatly expands our knowledge and understanding of its subject A Lincoln will engage a whole new generation of Americans It is poised to shed a profound light on our greatest president just as The usa commemorates the bicentennial of his birth From the Hardcover edition

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