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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RONALD C. WHITE, JR., is the author of Lincoln’s Greatest Speech, a New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, and The Eloquent President, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a Los Angeles Times bestseller. White earned his Ph.D. at Princeton and has taught at UCLA, Princeton Theological Seminary, Whitworth University, Colorado College, and San Francisco Theological Seminary. He is currently a Fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and a visiting professor at UCLA. He has lectured at the White House, the Library of Congress, and Gettysburg. He lives with his wife, Cynthia, in La Cañada, California.
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