num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America
titlecomplete: The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America
genres: History, Presidents, Civil War, War, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 70
publisher: Harvard University Press