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378 | Joshua Zeitz: What President Lincoln's Faith Means for a Secularizing America

The Realignment

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The Unifier Team of Rivalry of Lincoln

The idea of Lincoln as the great consensus builder emerges, you could see it in Obama's speeches and Steven Spielberg's film. But he was an extraordinarily controversial figure in his time. He told John Hay, it's a little singular that I, who am not a vindictive man, should always have been before the people for election in canvases marked for their bitterness.

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