03317cam a2200289 4500 684761433 TxAuBib 20230309120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593632888 0593632885 45b0c8c7-bc4a-4d6e-91c8-5c698211a870 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8854097 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Meacham, Jon. And There Was Light [Libby] : Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. Books on Tape, 2022. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 490MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 489MB. Biography & Autobiography. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer&#160;Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America.</b><br /> <b>“In his captivating new book, Jon Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.</b><br /> <b>LONGLISTED FOR THE BIOGRAPHERS INTERNATIONAL PLUTARCH AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br /> A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. 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. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.<br /> At once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents—a remote icon—or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln—an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment, essential to the story of justice in America, began as he grew up in an antislavery Baptist community; who insisted that slavery was a moral evil; and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him to see the right.<br /> This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination in 1865: his rise, his self-education, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans, Lincoln’s story illustrates the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-03-09 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=45b0c8c7-bc4a-4d6e-91c8-5c698211a870&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=45b0c8c7-bc4a-4d6e-91c8-5c698211a870&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)