The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674511262)

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.

Author: Mark E. Neely
ISBN-10: 0674511263
ISBN-13: 9780674511262
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/05/1995
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.18w x 0.66d