Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation

Lincoln's spiritual journey from spiritual skeptic to America's first evangelical Christian presidentbeliever-a conversion that changed both the Civil War and the practice of religion itself.

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 appreciate the growing political and military importance of the Christian community, and when death t...