One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln’s Road to Civil War Audiobook

Quotes

• “Waugh...recounts the 1864 election with great narrative skill. The story sweeps along, with brilliant vignettes of all the players in the drama and one vivid scene after another.”

  — New York Times Book Review on Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency

• “Lively prose backed with solid research…Waugh is particularly adept at weaving details of Lincoln’s family life into the narrative.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “General audiences will delight in Waugh’s expansive narrative full of colorful anecdotes. This book vividly illustrates why Abraham Lincoln remains a touchstone for democracy.”

  — Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois State Historian, Lincoln Presidential Library

• “As always, John C. Waugh combines a historian’s vision with a journalist’s nose for news—and the result is another rich page-turner that will make readers think they are along for Abraham Lincoln’s improbable ride to fame.”

  — Harold Holzer, cochairman, US Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

• “One Man Great Enough is a treasure. It is a gift to all of us as we approach Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday. Richly written, it is the wonderful story of the evolving leadership and political courage of an American who should be emulated by every public official.”

  — Frank J. Williams, founding chair of the Lincoln Forum

• “Journalist-historian John C. Waugh has scored another tour de force. Waugh provides special dimensions to the exciting story that brought the right man to the presidency as the nation faced its greatest crisis.”

  — Edwin Cole Bearss, author of Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War