New lincoln biography 2014
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Fun fact: Feb. 12, 1809, is the birthdate for both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin.
New lincoln biography 2014
While we tend to contemplate “The Great Emancipator” as fully formed well before he became the 16th president, his moral perspectives and political goals developed in a gradual process more akin to Darwin’s theories.
Jon Meacham’s excellent new biography, “And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle,” illuminates how Lincoln’s personal growth and travails enabled him to lead a nation along a fitful evolution toward freedom despite a catastrophic rebellion that denied it.
Fueling the national disaster was the “Big Lie” of Lincoln’s day — that slavery was a justifiable institution.
Meacham does not portray Lincoln’s backstory as mere iconography — the log cabin, the backwoods education, the rail splitting.
Rather, this account of his hardscrabble youth is less an any-boy-can-be-president morality tale