Leading Lincoln scholar and author Ronald C. White, Jr., will speak on Abraham Lincoln on Tuesday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m., at Quincy University’s North Campus Auditorium (18^th & Seminary Road). The presentation is free and open to the public. The program is sponsored by Quincy’s Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

            Of White’s latest publication, A. Lincoln: A Biography, Publishers Weekly says, “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.  The author makes good use of Lincoln's voluminous private papers and those of his contemporaries to paint a vivid picture of Lincoln's thoughts as he matured and then guided the nation through the four worst years of its existence.”

            White published A. Lincoln: A Biography in January. He provides a portrait of Lincoln’s personal, political, and moral evolution. Most enlightening, the Abraham Lincoln who comes into focus in this outstanding narrative is a person of integrity and intellectual curiosity who is unafraid to think anew and act anew. The Washington Post says, “The signature feature of this full biography is White's treatment of Lincoln as reader, writer and orator, a terrain where new insights are still available. Abraham Lincoln loved books, an old trope in the Lincoln myth, but it is so very true.”

            White has written seven other books, including Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, which was a Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller as well as a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year,” and The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln through His Words, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club.

            White has lectured nationwide about President Lincoln, including appearances at the White House, Library of Congress, and at the Lincoln Forum in Gettysburg.   He is a

Fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Ca., visiting professor of history at UCLA, and professor emeritus of American religious history at San Francisco Theological Seminary. A native of Minneapolis, Minn., White grew up in California where he received a bachelor’s degree fro UCLA. He earned his masters in divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary and his doctorate from Princeton University. White also studied at Lincoln Theological College in England.

            Quincy University is a Catholic, Franciscan liberal arts university with more than 30 undergraduate majors and four graduate programs. QU ranked 33 among top Midwest Baccalaureate Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Colleges list. For more information, please contact the Quincy University office of public relations at 217-228-5275.

           

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