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As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. This extraordinary biography by one of the most highly regarded historians on the subject examines Lincoln both as a rising politician and as president. While pursuing office, Lincoln drew strength from public opinion and from the machinery of his party. As a wartime president, he recognized the limits as well as the possibilities of power. In his struggle to end slavery, he found allies in the churches, their humanitarian agencies, and the volunteer Union Army. In illuminating the political talents that went hand in hand with a large and serious moral purpose, Carwardine gives us a fresh, important portrait of the incomparable Abraham Lincoln.

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An outstanding, detailed coverage which will prove a 'must' for any researching Lincoln's life or times. -- California Bookwatch Oxford don Richard Carwardine...paints a remarkable picture of the greatest of the Americans who fused the secular and the sacred. -- Gabor S. Boritt, director, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg There is simply no other Lincoln biography like it. -- Tom Schwartz, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library No one seriously interested in Lincoln can afford to ignore Carwardine's judicious work. -- Daniel Walker Howe, Oxford University Whereas a print reader might pause to reflect, in audio it is narrator Stefan Rudnicki's task to maintain the pace and rhythm of the whole. That he does so while staying true to the meditative character of the text is a measure of his impressive skill and discipline. -- AudioFile Stands up to any comparison...Carwardine wisely reinterprets many sources to present his nuanced overview of the moral man that was Abraham Lincoln. -- Oregonian Carwardine's Lincoln Prize-winning study is not only analytical and smart, it's also delightfully readable--and it will surely emerge as one of the most important Lincoln books to be published this decade. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) An illuminating and thoroughly intelligent assessment of Lincoln the politician... Carwardine provides a comprehensive study of how an essentially good man could gain and wield power even in scoundrel times. -- New York Times Review of Books

An illuminating and thoroughly intelligent assessment of Lincoln the politician... Carwardine provides a comprehensive study of how an essentially good man could gain and wield power even in scoundrel times. -- New York Times Review of Books Carwardine's Lincoln Prize-winning study is not only analytical and smart, it's also delightfully readable--and it will surely emerge as one of the most important Lincoln books to be published this decade. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Stands up to any comparison...Carwardine wisely reinterprets many sources to present his nuanced overview of the moral man that was Abraham Lincoln. -- Oregonian Whereas a print reader might pause to reflect, in audio it is narrator Stefan Rudnicki's task to maintain the pace and rhythm of the whole. That he does so while staying true to the meditative character of the text is a measure of his impressive skill and discipline. -- AudioFile No one seriously interested in Lincoln can afford to ignore Carwardine's judicious work. -- Daniel Walker Howe, Oxford University There is simply no other Lincoln biography like it. -- Tom Schwartz, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Oxford don Richard Carwardine...paints a remarkable picture of the greatest of the Americans who fused the secular and the sacred. -- Gabor S. Boritt, director, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg An outstanding, detailed coverage which will prove a 'must' for any researching Lincoln's life or times. -- California Bookwatch

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Richard Carwardine is a Rhodes professor of American history at Oxford University and is the first British scholar to be awarded the Lincoln Prize, the largest award in America for nineteenth-century American history. He lives in Oxford. Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than three thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices in 2012. Emily Janice Card (a.k.a. Emily Rankin) is an actor, writer, and singer from North Carolina, now residing in Los Angeles. In addition to being a narrator, she has directed numerous audiobooks, including the 2007 Audie and Earphones Award winner Hubris, Legacy of Ashes by Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner, and Them by Nathan McCall. Her own audiobook narration has won her four Earphones Awards.

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