‘Righteous Strife’ Review: Calling Heaven to the Union’s Cause
Facing the crisis of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln drew on religious feeling to help galvanize the North—and to bolster his ...
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Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War
In January, for example, Knopf published Richard Carwardine’s “Righteous Strife: How Religious Nationalists ... to do after the fighting stops. Abraham Lincoln wanted to “let them (the ...
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‘Righteous Strife’ Review: Calling Heaven to the Union’s Cause
As a young man in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was a religious skeptic. Raised in the Presbyterian Church, he would later decline to attend services and publicly question Christianity’s central tenets.