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A review by dale_kooyenga
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham
5.0
This is the fourth biography I've read about Abraham Lincoln, and I still can't get enough. It's tough to meet or exceed Carl Sandburg's standards, but Meacham is right there. I will read every book Meacham writes. This book reaffirms Lincoln's greatness and Meacham's talent for research and storytelling.
I appreciate Meacham's injection of his faith in the storytelling and the incorporation of elements of Lincoln's faith, which was evolving and complicated. Lincoln's and America's history is complicated, and there are no saints. Lincoln was a politician well before he was a martyr, and as a politician, he articulated feelings about America's blacks that we would properly ostracize any individual for articulating today. If Lincoln believed what he said, or if he was playing politics at the time, we'll never know, but he would have unlikely been America's emancipator if he didn't play the game.
I personally believe God used Lincoln and, over time, opened his eyes, heart, mind, and soul to the revelation inherent in scripture, and the US Constitution, and that is that all men are created equal and are children of the Father.
I appreciate Meacham's injection of his faith in the storytelling and the incorporation of elements of Lincoln's faith, which was evolving and complicated. Lincoln's and America's history is complicated, and there are no saints. Lincoln was a politician well before he was a martyr, and as a politician, he articulated feelings about America's blacks that we would properly ostracize any individual for articulating today. If Lincoln believed what he said, or if he was playing politics at the time, we'll never know, but he would have unlikely been America's emancipator if he didn't play the game.
I personally believe God used Lincoln and, over time, opened his eyes, heart, mind, and soul to the revelation inherent in scripture, and the US Constitution, and that is that all men are created equal and are children of the Father.