Lincoln's Mentors
Paperback 496 pages English Feb 15, 2022
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A brilliant and novel examination ofhow Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership"Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of other presidents, and more wisdom than every one of them. In this original, insightful book, Michael Gerhardt explains how this came to be." -H.W. Brands, Wall Street JournalIn 1849, when Abraham Lincolnreturned to Springfield, Illinois, after two seemingly uninspiring years in theU.S. House of Representatives, his political career appeared all but finished.His sense of failure was so great that friends worried about his sanity. Yetwithin a decade, Lincoln would reenter politics, become a leader of theRepublican Party, win the 1860 presidential election, and keep America togetherduring its most perilous period. What accounted for the turnaround?As Michael J. Gerhardtreveals, Lincoln's reemergence followed the same path he had taken before, inwhich he read voraciously and learned from the successes, failures, oratory, and political maneuvering of a surprisingly diverse handful of men, some ofwhom he had never met but others of whom he knew intimately--Henry Clay, AndrewJackson, Zachary Taylor, John Todd Stuart, and Orville Browning. From theirexperiences and his own, Lincoln learned valuable lessons on leadership, mastering party politics, campaigning, conventions, understanding and usingexecutive power, managing a cabinet, speechwriting and oratory, and--what wouldbecome his most enduring legacy--developing policies and rhetoric to match aconstitutional vision that spoke to the monumental challenges of his time.Without these mentors, Abraham Lincoln would likely have remained a small-town lawyer--and withoutLincoln, the United States as we know it may not have survived. This book tellsthe unique story of how Lincoln emerged from obscurity and learned how to lead.
- Author:
- Michael J. Gerhardt
- Publisher:
- Mariner Books
- Publication Date:
- Feb 15, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 496 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0062877186
- ISBN-13:
- 9780062877185