The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America

by Mark E. Neely

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Mark E. Neely, Jr., gives us the first compact biography of Abraham Lincoln based on new scholarship. Neely, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, vividly recaptures the central place of politics in Lincoln's life. Richly illustrated, nuanced and accessible, written with attention to the age in which Lincoln lived, yet ever alert to universal moral questions, this book provides a portrait of Lincoln as an extraordinary man in his own time and ours.
  • ISBN10 0674511263
  • ISBN13 9780674511262
  • Publish Date 4 April 1995 (first published 1 October 1993)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harvard University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 320
  • Language English