And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham
By Timothy Sandefur
New York: Random House, 2022
676 pages, $40 hardback
When Abraham Lincoln died in a bricklayer’s house across from Ford’s Theater on April 15, 1865, the weeping secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, said . . . something. Nobody knows exactly what. The most common version of the story holds that Stanton said, “Now he belongs to the ages.” But some thought his w…
