![]() ![]() ![]() In the latest study of that life, biographer Jon Meacham gives us a Lincoln for the present moment, when the statuesque figures of American myth are being arraigned at the bar of 21st-century standards. Lincoln sustains such interest because his life is the casting of an unusually elusive and complicated character amid the drama of the United States’ greatest crisis, which reverberates even now. Yet one can fairly claim that this is a golden age, rich with work that illuminates more than repeats - the age of encyclopedic Michael Burlingame, politically acute Sidney Blumenthal and multifaceted Harold Holzer, among others. ![]() New biographies of Abraham Lincoln inevitably invite the question: Why does the world need another? It is said that only Jesus of Nazareth has been the subject of more books, and he had an 1,800-year head start. Abraham Lincoln, in an image made from an August 1863 glass plate negative.Īuthor Jon Meacham will discuss his new book on Abraham Lincoln with David Von Drehle in Kansas City on Nov. ![]()
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