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

From the author of The Class of 1846: "A swift-paced narrative of Lincoln's pre-presidential life." —The Washington Post Book World

How did Abraham Lincoln, long held as a paragon of presidential bravery and principled politics, find his way to the White House? How did he become the one man great enough to risk the fate of the nation on the well-worn but cast-off notion that all men are created equal?

Here, award-winning historian John C. Waugh takes readers on Lincoln's road to the C...