She argues that Lincoln was a consistent friend of African-American freedom, and she speculates on how Reconstruction would have differed had Lincoln lived thro

“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review,

This book represents the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by Jaffa, and continues his piercing examination of the political thought

Readers of American history and books on Abraham Lincoln will appreciate what Los Angeles Review of Books deems an "accessible book" that "puts a human face —

Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president” as well as “the first who rose above the prejudice of his times an