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Jon Meacham in Conversation with David Rubenstein: And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

Abraham Lincoln was a President who governed a divided country, and he has much to teach us in a twenty first century moment of polarization and political crisis.

He was hated and hailed, excoriated, and revered and at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionist gave nothing in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. Join Pulitzer Prize winning biographer and New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham in conversation with bestselling author and cofounder and cochairman of the Carlyle Group David Rubenstein when they discuss 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.

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