![]() ![]() ![]() He is almost certainly the most well-connected presidential biographer of the moment. Meacham bids to be the redeemer in chief of the narrative of American exceptionalism: the venerable if now-shopworn story in which the United States has a providential and world-historic role as a nation distinctively dedicated to human liberty. The latest - Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham’s “And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle” - offers an account of the life of the United States’ 16th president that is worldly and spiritual, and carefully tailored to suit our conflict-ridden times. But if time seems to move faster these days, then perhaps it is altogether fitting and proper that our generation should have so many. From a Washington Post review by John Fabian Witt of the book by Jon Meacham titled “And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle”Įvery generation gets its own Abraham Lincoln biography. ![]()
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