Lincoln's God : how faith transformed a president and a nation
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
973.7 Z374
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973.7 Z374
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Book
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xix, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Street Date
2305
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-300) and index.
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Lincoln's wartime spiritual journey from heretic son and cold skeptic to America's first evangelical Christian president, the role his conversion played in the Civil War, and the way it in turn transformed Protestantism. Abraham Lincoln, unlike most of his political brethren, kept organized Christianity at arm's length. He never joined a church and only sometimes attended Sunday services with his wife. But as he came to appreciate the growing political and military importance of the Christian churches, and when death touched the Lincoln household in an awful, intimate way, the erstwhile skeptic effectively evolved into the nation's first evangelical president. The war, he told Americans, was in some fashion divine retribution for the sin of slavery. This is the story of that transformation and the ways in which religion helped millions of Northerners interpret the carnage and political upheaval of the 1850s and 1860s. Rather than focus on battles and personalities, Joshua Zeitz probes the social impact of the war on Northerners' spiritual worldview and the impact of this religious transformation on the war effort itself.,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Zeitz, J. (2023). Lincoln's God: how faith transformed a president and a nation . Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Zeitz, Joshua. 2023. Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation. Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Zeitz, Joshua. Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation Viking, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Zeitz, Joshua. Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation Viking, 2023.
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