![]() ![]() But Meacham is no slouch and has a track record of enlivening the life stories of some of America’s greatest historical figures. Meacham is merely the latest to lend his pen towards the effort. Lincoln is a giant, and he has been well-eulogized and well-chronicled by biographers since his death. ![]() The struggle to fulfill that hope was passed on to the American people after his untimely assassination, and that struggle, led by imperfect but scrappy people, continues today. He embodied the hope of America by his story, and as president, he extended that hope through emancipation to an entire race. Receiving little formal education, perhaps born illegitimately, self-trained as a lawyer, from the backwoods of the then-West, Lincoln rose to become perhaps the most eminent character of nineteenth-century world history. One of today’s great biographers of American history (Jon Meacham) eloquently takes on telling Lincoln’s life story to illustrate how its impact echoes to the present. King) have reached Lincoln’s heights, but no one has surpassed his personal struggle for a union without slavery. ![]() “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” These words were written by an enslaver who held to white supremacy, yet they inspired a nation and inspire it still. ![]()
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