Books by Ronald C. White, JR. and Complete Book Reviews

Ronald C. White, JR., Author Simon & Schuster $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1298-4
Dean and professor of American religious history at the San Francisco Theological Seminary, White (Religion and the Bill of Rights) does for Lincoln's Second Inaugural ("with malice toward none... ") something of what Garry Wills did for
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Ronald C. White, JR., Author Random $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6119-8
White (Lincoln's Greatest Speech ) traces Lincoln's evolving rhetoric over the course of his presidency in a series of highly detailed critical essays. He follows Lincoln from the cautious, lawyerly text of the First Inaugural to the soaring,
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Ronald C. White, JR., Author Random House $35 (796p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6499-1
In this excellent biography, veteran historian White emphasizes that Lincoln was our most likable major president, lacking Washington's aloofness and the deviousness of FDR and Jefferson. Many young men from the frontier overcame the handicaps of...
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Ronald C. White Jr. Random House, $35 (880p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6902-6
Concerned that Grant, a Civil War general and two-term U.S. president, “has slipped from our American memory,” White (A. Lincoln), a historian and fellow at the Huntington Library, has crafted an exhaustive biography that offers a reevaluation of...
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