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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 takenit upon themselves to characterize Lincoln according to their ownlabel or libel. In this magnificent book, Ronald C. White, Jr.,offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln as a man ofintegrity–what today’s commentators would call “authenticity”–whosemoral compass holds the key to understanding his life.
　　

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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作者简介

　　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 thenation he saved, endlessly fascinating. Ronald C. White has writtena splendid, sprawling biography of a man we can never know too muchabout.” —Jon Meacham, author of American Lion and Franklin andWinston
　　
　　“Ronald C. White, an acknowledged expert on the speeches ofAbraham Lincoln, has now taken in hand a full-length biography. Tothis task he brings the careful reading, patient attention tocontext, and special sensitivity to complex questions aboutLincoln's religion that characterized his earlier books. The resultis a first-rate study that will probably be THE biography of theLincoln Bicentennial Year.”—Mark A. Noll, Francis A. McAnaneyProfessor of History, University of Notre Dame
　　

“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.

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