A review by duparker
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham

3.0

3.5 stars. Meacham is such a solid researcher and writer, but none of his tomes come close to the Destiny of Power, his bio of HW Bush. That said, any book on Lincoln is going to start from both a place of prosperity and a place of question, with how many biographies there are in the market. I found this book to be smooth, insightful and caring. There is a historians eye to the writing and research (as evident in the 300 pages of notes), and it is told with a conversational tone of a professor who isn't too academic. Nicely done. It would be a 4 if Doris Kearns Goodwin hadn't written Team of Rivals, the definitive Lincoln book.