I WANTED TO ANSWER THE QUESTION NOT OF HOW HE DID WHAT HE DID BUT WHY.ĭEMOCRACY HAS NOT BEEN AT AS GREAT A RISK SINCE HIS TIME THAN IT IS FOR OURS. I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WERE THESE BOOKS ABOUT LINCOLN. IT'S THE LINE ABOUT, THEY WERE IN A DESERT BUT I WAS MISINFORMED. WHY DID YOU DECIDE THAT YOU WANTED TO DO LINCOLN, AND WHY DID YOU WANT TO DO IT NOW? WE KNOW THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN THAT HAVE TAKEN A LOOK AT THE MAN. LET ME START WITH THE IDEA OF A LINCOLN BOOK. WE ARE DELIGHTED HE JOINS US TO TALK ABOUT THIS BOOK. JON MEACHAM'S BOOK GIVES US A LINCOLN FOR OUR TIME. HIS BOOK TITLED 'AND THERE WAS LIGHT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE' TAKES A FRESH LOOK AT HOW HE NAVIGATED THE POLITICAL TURMOIL OF HIS DAY AND SHOWS HOW HIS PRESIDENCY IS ESPECIALLY RELEVANT TODAY. THE MAN WHO ENDED SLAVERY AND SAVED THE UNION IS HELD UP AS A PARAGON OF MORAL RECTITUDE AND REVERE AND ALMOST SAINT-LIKE FIGURE.Ī NEW BOOK BY JON MEACHAM REVEALS A MORE COMPLEX AND NUANCED PICTURE OF LINCOLN. ABRAHAM LINCOLN HAS BEEN VIEWED AS A ROLE MODEL FOR THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.
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