![]() ![]() In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.Īt once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidentsa remote iconor as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus ReviewsĪ president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis.Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award.Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize ![]() "Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time."Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ![]()
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