Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power Audiobook

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• “An illuminating and thoroughly intelligent assessment of Lincoln the politician...Carwardine provides a comprehensive study of how an essentially good man could gain and wield power even in scoundrel times.” 

  — New York Times Review of Books

• “Carwardine’s Lincoln Prize–winning study is not only analytical and smart, it’s also delightfully readable—and it will surely emerge as one of the most important Lincoln books to be published this decade.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Stands up to any comparison...Carwardine wisely reinterprets many sources to present his nuanced overview of the moral man that was Abraham Lincoln.”

  — Oregonian

• “Whereas a print reader might pause to reflect, in audio it is narrator Stefan Rudnicki’s task to maintain the pace and rhythm of the whole. That he does so while staying true to the meditative character of the text is a measure of his impressive skill and discipline.”

  — AudioFile

• “No one seriously interested in Lincoln can afford to ignore Carwardine’s judicious work.”

  — Daniel Walker Howe, Oxford University

• “There is simply no other Lincoln biography like it.”

  — Tom Schwartz, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

• “Oxford don Richard Carwardine…paints a remarkable picture of the greatest of the Americans who fused the secular and the sacred.”

  — Gabor S. Boritt, director, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg

• “An outstanding, detailed coverage which will prove a ‘must’ for any researching Lincoln’s life or times.”

  — California Bookwatch