TY  - SOUND
AU  - Meacham,Jon
TI  - And there was light: Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle 
SN  - 9780593632864
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - [New York]
PB  - Random House Audio
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - Race relations
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1845-1861
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Audiobooks
N1  - Title from container; Read by Jon Meacham
N2  - Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. 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 at Ford's Theater on Good Friday 1865: his rise, his self-education through reading, 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 of the nineteenth century, Lincoln's story illuminates the ways and means of politics, the marshaling of power in a belligerent democracy, the durability of white supremacy in America, and the capacity of conscience to shape the maelstrom of events
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