And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
(Audiobook CD)

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[New York] : Random House Audio, [2022].
ISBN
9780593632864, 0593632869
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Oak Lawn Public Library - AV
CD 973.711 MEACHAM
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Published
[New York] : Random House Audio, [2022].
Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
14 audio discs (17 hr., 50 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
ISBN
9780593632864, 0593632869
UPC
9780593632864

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Compact disc.
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Read by Jon Meacham.
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"A president who governed a country at war with itself 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. 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. [It] 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 illuminates the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Meacham, J. (2022). And there was light: Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle (Unabridged.). Random House Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Meacham, Jon. 2022. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. Random House Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Meacham, Jon. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle Random House Audio, 2022.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Meacham, Jon. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle Unabridged., Random House Audio, 2022.

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