And There Was Light

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America.</b><br><br><b>“Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.</b><br><br><b>Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize • Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: <i>The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br><br>A president who governed a divided country 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 possi