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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham

By Timothy Sandefur

Feb 13, 2023
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham
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New York: Random House, 2022

676 pages, $40 hardback

When Abraham Lincoln died in a bricklayer’s house across from Ford’s Theater on April 15, 1865, the weeping secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, said . . . something. Nobody knows exactly what. The most common version of the story holds that Stanton said, “Now he belongs to the ages.” But some thought his w…

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