And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle The book begins with the

The book begins with the authors' personal experiences of controversies over sexuality and closes with Richard Hays's epilogue reflecting on his own change of heart and mind

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it's up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery--and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle The book begins with theNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how and why he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. "Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time." Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award One of the Best Books of the