Jochen zeitz biography of abraham lincoln
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Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation
"Zeitz adds meaningful context to the story, examining the ways in which soldiers experienced religion in the field .
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Importantly, Zeitz includes the perspective of Black Americans, who held views of their own that were often at odds with the tendency to see the United States as a promised land, or Canaan . . . Zeitz has chosen an important element of Lincolns life to explore, especially in an age when the virus of religious certainty drives so much autocratic thinking, at home and abroad."The New York Times Book Review
"In his thoughtful new book...Zeitz writes a compelling chronicle of Lincoln's evolving relationship to faith against a backdrop of events that influenced the Great Emancipator as much as he influenced them.
Such a portrait of young Lincoln in particular, who "studiously avoided mixing religion and politics," is timely and provocative."The National Catholic Reporter