Abraham Lincoln
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An Intellectual And Religious Biography Of Lincoln Biographies of Abraham Lincoln have tended to fall into two broad categories. The first category consists of biographies of the "subjective" Lincoln. These biographies are based largely on the many anecdotes and stories people told about Lincoln's li......more

I read the new second edition of this 1999 book, which is “updated and revised with a new preface.” The updates, Guelzo explains in his preface, are mostly just minor factual corrections in the text. The preface itself is essentially a continuation of the original's note on sources, in which Guelzo......more

Nothing less than a tour-de-force. I'm tempted to say that only a religious person—particularly a Christian—could understand this almost certainly unbelieving politician and thinker. Guelzo finds a theme in Lincoln's theology that he, successfully in my opinion, traces throughout his life, namely a......more

Abraham Lincoln is one of my historical heroes – perhaps my favorite historical figure. I would not have thought much new or fresh could be written about Lincoln, but Allen Guelzo proves me wrong. This book is less a biography or a history, and more a narrative Lincoln’s intellectual and spiritual e......more

Allen Guelzo arguably lists as one of the top three contemporary Lincoln scholars, with many Lincoln writings to his credit. It didn’t start that way. His earliest degrees were in biblical studies and church history before turning to more secular history, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War. We are a......more