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03972aam a22004218i 4500 001 D302D5A2EE2E11ED8D85606C28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230509010038 008 220915s2023 nyu b 001 0deng 010 $a 2022040227 020 $a 198488221X 020 $a 9781984882219 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a E457.2 $b .Z46 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20220920 100 1 $a Zeitz, Joshua, $e author. $9 113574 245 10 $a LINCOLN'S GOD : $b HOW FAITH TRANSFORMED A PRESIDENT AND A NATION / $c Joshua Zeitz. 246 30 $a How faith transformed a president and a nation 263 $a 2305 264 1 $a [New York, New York] : $b Viking, $c [2023] 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2023/05/16 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Undistinguished Families -- Every Soul is Free -- Floating Piece of Driftwood -- The Evangelical United Front -- Vote as You Pray -- And the War Came -- Losing Willie -- Soldiers' War -- No Sorrow Like Our Sorrow -- The Unraveling. 520 $a "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 appreciatee 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 impactof the war on Northerners' spiritual worldview and the impact of this religious transformation on the war effort itself. Characters include the famous--Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Henry Ward Beecher--and ordinary soldiers and their familieswhose evolving understanding of mortality and heaven and beliefs about mission motivated them to fight. Long underestimated in accounts of the Civil War, religion--specifically evangelical Christianity--played an instrumental role on the battlefield andhome front, and in the corridors of government. More than any president before him-or any president after, until George W. Bush-Lincoln harnessed popular religious enthusiasm to build broad-based support for a political party and a cause. He did so as a master politician and sincere believer, though his belief was characteristically heterodox-and widely misunderstood then, as now. After his death and the end of an unforgiving war, Americans needed to memorialize Lincoln as a Christian martyr. The truth was, of course, considerably more complicated, as this original book explores"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Lincoln, Abraham, $d 1809-1865 $x Religion. $9 72233 650 0 $a Presidents $x Religious life $z United States. 650 0 $a Christianity and politics $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Christianity. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Religious aspects $x Christianity. 651 0 $a United States $x Religion $y 19th century. $9 101356 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Zeitz, Joshua $t Lincoln's God $d [New York, New York] : Viking, [2023] $z 9781984882226 $w (DLC) 2022040228 941 $a 4 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403014201.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230706010634.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230603010154.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230509010145.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D302D5A2EE2E11ED8D85606C28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search