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　　Everyone wants to define the man who signed his name “A.

Lincoln.” In his lifetime and ever since, friend and foe have taken

it upon themselves to characterize Lincoln according to their own

label or libel. In this magnificent book, Ronald C. White, Jr.,

offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln as a man of

integrity–what today’s commentators would call “authenticity”–whose

moral compass holds the key to understanding his life.

Through meticulous research of the newly completed Lincoln Legal

Papers, as well as of recently discovered letters and photographs,

White provides a portrait of Lincoln’s personal, political, and

moral evolution. White shows us Lincoln as a man who would leave a

trail of thoughts in his wake, jotting ideas on scraps of paper and

filing them in his top hat or the bottom drawer of his desk; a

country lawyer who asked questions in order to figure out his own

thinking on an issue, as much as to argue the case; a hands-on

commander in chief who, as soldiers and sailors watched in

amazement, commandeered a boat and ordered an attack on Confederate

shore batteries at the tip of the Virginia peninsula; a man who

struggled with the immorality of slavery and as president acted

publicly and privately to outlaw it forever; and finally, a

president involved in a religious odyssey who wrote, for his own

eyes only, a profound meditation on “the will of God” in the Civil

War that would become the basis of his finest address.

Most enlightening, the Abraham Lincoln who comes into focus in

this stellar narrative is a person of intellectual curiosity,

comfortable with ambiguity, unafraid to “think anew and act

anew.”

A transcendent, sweeping, passionately written biography that

greatly expands our knowledge and understanding of its subject, A.

Lincoln will engage a whole new generation of Americans. It is

poised to shed a profound light on our greatest president just as

America commemorates the bicentennial of his birth.

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　　Ronald C. White, Jr., is the author of two bestselling books

on Abraham Lincoln: The Eloquent President and Lincoln’s Greatest

Speech, a New York Times Notable Book. White earned his Ph.D. at

Princeton and has lectured on Lincoln at hundreds of universities

and organizations, and at Gettysburg and the White House. He is a

Fellow at the Huntington Library and a Visiting Professor of

History at UCLA. He lives with his wife, Cynthia, in La Ca?ada,

California.

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　　“Lincoln is endlessly chronicled because he is, like the

nation he saved, endlessly fascinating. Ronald C. White has written

a splendid, sprawling biography of a man we can never know too much

about.” —Jon Meacham, author of American Lion and Franklin and

Winston

　　“Ronald C. White, an acknowledged expert on the speeches of

Abraham Lincoln, has now taken in hand a full-length biography. To

this task he brings the careful reading, patient attention to

context, and special sensitivity to complex questions about

Lincoln's religion that characterized his earlier books. The result

is a first-rate study that will probably be THE biography of the

Lincoln Bicentennial Year.”—Mark A. Noll, Francis A. McAnaney

Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

　　“Having given us two masterful studies of Lincoln's eloquence,

Ronald C. White now delivers a riveting biography. This page-turner

narrates all the major events of Lincoln's public career, including

his military decision-making, but it does much more. No other book

has so completely captured the elusive temperament of the man-- his

humility and confidence, heart and intellect, religious spirit and

secular sensibility. If you thought you knew Lincoln already,

you'll know him better after reading this patient, probing work. A

portrait for the ages.”—Richard Wightman Fox, Professor of History,

University of Southern California

　　“Ron White’s A. Lincoln is a superb biography of America’s

greatest leader. It is fully fleshed, thoughtful, provocative, and

scholarly. Lincoln is never out of fashion. After a generation

during which three comprehensive one-volume Lincoln biographies

appeared—Benjamin P. Thomas’s Abraham Lincoln: A Biography in 1952;

Stephen B. Oates’s With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham

Lincoln in 1977; and David Donald’s Lincoln in 1995—A. Lincoln: A

Biography, with its rich detail, will be the standard text for

years to come. The author includes the religious connections to his

subject like no other biographer. This is a remarkable Lincoln

biography by an outstanding writer.”—Frank J. Williams, Founding

Chair of The Lincoln Forum and Chief Justice of the Rhode Island

Supreme Court

　　”Lincoln’s bicentennial will bring a flood of books about the

sixteenth president. Anyone seeking an expansive, thoroughly

engaging biography should turn to Ronald C. White’s gracefully

written narrative. It does full justice to the complexity and drama

of the era and allows readers to understand how Lincoln ultimately

triumphed in guiding the nation through its greatest trial.”—Gary

W. Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor of History, University of

Virginia

　　“Ronald C. White’s A. Lincoln is the best biography of Lincoln

since David Donald’s Lincoln. In many respects it is better than

Donald’s biography, because it has incorporated the scholarship of

the past fourteen years and is written in a fluent style that will

appeal to a large range of general readers as well as Lincoln

aficionados. The special strengths that lift this work above other

biographies include a brilliant analysis of Lincoln’s principal

speeches and writings, which were an important weapon in his

political leadership and statesmanship, and on which Ronald C.

White is the foremost expert, having written two major books on

Lincoln’s speeches and writings.  Another strength is White’s

analysis of Lincoln's evolving religious convictions, which shaped

the core of his effective leadership, his moral integrity. White’s

discussion of Lincoln’s changing attitudes and policies with

respect to slavery and race is also a key aspect of this biography.

Amid all the books on Lincoln that will be published during the

coming year, this one will stand out as one of the best.” —James M.

McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of

Freedom

　　“A beautifully written, deeply personal story of Lincoln’s life

and service to his country. Ronald C. White’s moving account is

particularly strong in its analyses of Lincoln’s rhetoric and the

process by which the president reached decisions.”—Daniel Walker

Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The

Transformation of America, 1815-1848

　　“Each generation requires–and seems to inspire–its own masterly

one-volume Lincoln biography, and scholar Ronald C. White has

crowned the bicentennial year with an instant classic for the

twenty-first century. Wise, scholarly, evenhanded, and elegant, the

book at once informs and inspires, with a rewarding new emphasis on

the complex meaning and timeless importance of Lincoln’s great

words. Brimming with new anecdotes and informed interpretations,

White’s superb study brings vivid new life to an American

immortal.”—Harold Holzer, author of Lincoln: President-Elect, and

co-chairman, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

　　From the Hardcover edition.

书籍介绍

Everyone wants to define the man who signed his name “A. Lincoln.” In his lifetime and ever since, friend and foe have taken it upon themselves to characterize Lincoln according to their own label or libel. In this magnificent book, Ronald C. White, Jr., offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity–what today’s commentators would call “authenticity”–whose moral compass holds the key to understanding his life.

Through meticulous research of the newly completed Lincoln Legal Papers, as well as of recently discovered letters and photographs, White provides a portrait of Lincoln’s personal, political, and moral evolution. White shows us Lincoln as a man who would leave a trail of thoughts in his wake, jotting ideas on scraps of paper and filing them in his top hat or the bottom drawer of his desk; a country lawyer who asked questions in order to figure out his own thinking on an issue, as much as to argue the case; a hands-on commander in chief who, as soldiers and sailors watched in amazement, commandeered a boat and ordered an attack on Confederate shore batteries at the tip of the Virginia peninsula; a man who struggled with the immorality of slavery and as president acted publicly and privately to outlaw it forever; and finally, a president involved in a religious odyssey who wrote, for his own eyes only, a profound meditation on “the will of God” in the Civil War that would become the basis of his finest address.

Most enlightening, the Abraham Lincoln who comes into focus in this stellar narrative is a person of intellectual curiosity, comfortable with ambiguity, unafraid to “think anew and act anew.”

A transcendent, sweeping, passionately written biography that greatly expands our knowledge and understanding of its subject, A. Lincoln will engage a whole new generation of Americans. It is poised to shed a profound light on our greatest president just as America commemorates the bicentennial of his birth.

From the Hardcover edition.