title: The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words
author: Ronald C. White Jr.
description: An insightful, highly readable exploration of literary genius. The Washington Post Book World<br /><br />Outstanding . . . Lincolns eloquence was of such a rare kind. Ronald C. White captures its qualities admirably.<br />The Wall Street Journal<br /><br />A sheer pleasure . . . Its hard to say whats more edifying: reading Abraham Lincolns words or reading Ronald C. White, Jr.s illuminating take on Lincolns words.<br />The Sunday Oregonian<br /><br />Magnificent . . . Whites scholarship is exceptional.<br />The Sunday Oklahoman
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  # ALSO BY RONALD C. WHITE, JR.
  
  
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  The Eloquent President:  
  A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words
  
  
  Lincoln’s Greatest Speech:  
  The Second Inaugural
  
  
  Liberty and Justice for All:  
  Racial Reform and the Social Gospel
  
  
  An Unsettled Arena:  
  Religion and the Bill of Rights  
   _(editor with Albright G. Zimmerman)_
  
  
  Partners in Peace and Education  
   _(editor with Eugene J. Fisher)_
  
  
  American Christianity:  
  A Case Approach  
   _(with Garth Rosell and Louis B. Weeks)_
  
  
  The Social Gospel:  
  Religion and Reform in Changing America  
   _(with C. Howard Hopkins)_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![](images/Whit_9781588367754_epub_001_r1.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![](images/Whit_9781588367754_epub_tp_r1.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _For my wife,_  
   _Cynthia Conger White_
  
  
  
  
  
  # CONTENTS  
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  [LIST OF MAPS](Whit_9781588367754_epub_fm2_r1.htm)
  
  
  [CAST OF CHARACTERS](Whit_9781588367754_epub_fm3_r1.htm)
  
  
  CHAPTER 1 [_A. Lincoln and the Promise of
  America_](Whit_9781588367754_epub_c01_r1.htm)
  
  
  CHAPTER 2 [_Undistinguished Families_
  1809–1