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Crammed...with fresh observations...Edward Lewis reads clearly and even enthusiastically. -- AudioFile Is it possible that amid the voluminous literature on Abraham Lincoln, there is room for yet another study? Allen Guelzo...eloquently proves that there is, since religion has been sorely neglected by historians of Lincoln and the Civil War. -- Publishers Weekly A thoughtful, original book written in muscular prose...Guelzo has contributed a new perspective on this much-analyzed figure. -- American Historical Review Guelzo's book, the first true intellectual biography of the man the author calls America's 'redeemer president, ' ranks among the most significant half-dozen studies of Lincoln during a remarkable decade of scholarship. -- Choice One of the subtlest and deepest studies of Lincoln's faith and thought in many years...Seldom has the complex connection between Lincoln's predispositions and Lincoln's achievements been more insightfully studied than in Allen Guelzo's superb book. -- Weekly Standard Out of the countless volumes written about our sixteenth president, [this] ranks quite simply among the best. -- Wall Street Journal

Crammed...with fresh observations...Edward Lewis reads clearly and even enthusiastically. -- AudioFile Out of the countless volumes written about our sixteenth president, [this] ranks quite simply among the best. -- Wall Street Journal A thoughtful, original book written in muscular prose...Guelzo has contributed a new perspective on this much-analyzed figure. -- American Historical Review Guelzo's book, the first true intellectual biography of the man the author calls America's 'redeemer president, ' ranks among the most significant half-dozen studies of Lincoln during a remarkable decade of scholarship. -- Choice Is it possible that amid the voluminous literature on Abraham Lincoln, there is room for yet another study? Allen Guelzo...eloquently proves that there is, since religion has been sorely neglected by historians of Lincoln and the Civil War. -- Publishers Weekly One of the subtlest and deepest studies of Lincoln's faith and thought in many years...Seldom has the complex connection between Lincoln's predispositions and Lincoln's achievements been more insightfully studied than in Allen Guelzo's superb book. -- Weekly Standard

Is it possible that amid the voluminous literature on Abraham Lincoln, there is room for yet another study? Allen Guelzo...eloquently proves that there is, since religion has been sorely neglected by historians of Lincoln and the Civil War. -- Publishers Weekly A thoughtful, original book written in muscular prose...Guelzo has contributed a new perspective on this much-analyzed figure. -- American Historical Review One of the subtlest and deepest studies of Lincoln's faith and thought in many years...Seldom has the complex connection between Lincoln's predispositions and Lincoln's achievements been more insightfully studied than in Allen Guelzo's superb book. -- Weekly Standard Out of the countless volumes written about our sixteenth president, [this] ranks quite simply among the best. -- Wall Street Journal Crammed...with fresh observations...Edward Lewis reads clearly and even enthusiastically. -- AudioFile Guelzo's book, the first true intellectual biography of the man the author calls America's 'redeemer president, ' ranks among the most significant half-dozen studies of Lincoln during a remarkable decade of scholarship. -- Choice

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Allen C. Guelzo is the dean of the Templeton Honors College at Eastern College, where he is also the Grace F. Kea Professor of American History. A former fellow of the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, he is the author of Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Philosophical Debate, For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians, and The Crisis of the American Republic: A History of the Civil War and Reconstruction. He is also editor of Holland's Life of Lincoln and coeditor of Edwards in Our Time: Jonathan Edwards and the Shaping of American Religion. Edward Lewis (a.k.a. David Hilder) is a stage, film, and television actor. He has narrated unabridged audiobooks for over eighteen years and has recorded more than two hundred titles, spanning works of fiction and nonfiction.

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