{"product_id":"book-g5ex","title":"And There Was Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans, Lincoln’s story illustrates the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49324309348656,"sku":"40g5ex","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49324309315888,"sku":"BDg5ex","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/342105-g5ex-Square.jpg?v=1733543796","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-g5ex","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}