[3] This book, still in print, pushed the boundaries chronologically and topically of the traditional interpretation of the Social Gospel to include African Americans, Jews, women, and the South.

White served as director of continuing education and taught church history at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1981 to 1988.

An expanded version of the lectures was published in 1990 as Liberty and Justice for All: Racial Reform and the Social Gospel.

A Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, The New York Times selected it a Notable Book for 2002.

[6] In 2005 White authored The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words,[7] a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a selection of the History Book Club.

The biography was named one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, and Barnes & Noble.

Harold Holzer wrote: "Each generation requires—and seems to inspire—its own masterly one-volume Lincoln biography, and scholar Ronald C. White has crowned the bicentennial year with an instant classic for the twenty-first century.

"[11] In 2010 A. Lincoln won a Christopher Award, which salutes books that "affirm the highest values of the human spirit".

"[13] Reviewer Phillip C. Stone wrote: Ronald White's A. Lincoln: A Biography is readable, thorough, and thoughtful....

In a particularly insightful way, White describes Lincoln's development into a mature man, a successful politician and superior lawyer.

Jon Meacham wrote, "In this thorough and engaging new book, Ronald C. White restores U. S. Grant to the pantheon of great Americans."

Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith stated, "Employing a perspective as fresh as his newly tapped sources, White at last solves the Grant Enigma—reconciling in character and ability the hero of Appomattox with the (allegedly) failed President.

In scrawled penmanship, Lincoln explored a range of subjects: the mysteries of nature, a lawyer's public reputation, the immorality of slavery, the active role of God in human affairs.

Historians of the postwar years describe a period in which white Northerners and Southerners slowly reunited at the expense of the African-American citizens freed by the conflict.... Chamberlain's life conforms to this dynamic..... "But for me," Mr. White concludes, "Chamberlain remains a hero nonetheless, a leader committed to magnanimity in the divided nation of his time".