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About the Author
Ronald C. White is the author of two New York Times bestselling presidential biographies: A. Lincoln: A Biography, and American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant. He has also written Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, a New York Times Notable Book; The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words, a Los Angeles Times bestseller; Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President, recipient of the Barondess/Lincoln award, and On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a USA Today national bestseller.
His third presidential biography, Unprecedented: The Third Act of John Quincy Adams, will be published by Random House in the fall of 2027.
White, a graduate of UCLA and Princeton Theological Seminary, earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He lectures across the nation on American history, politics, and religion. He has lectured on Abraham Lincoln in England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and New Zealand. He lives with his wife Cynthia in Pasadena, California.
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