Lincoln On Leadership For Today: Abraham Lincoln's Approach to Twenty-First-Century Issues

by Donald T. Phillips

Overview

The author of the bestselling Lincoln on Leadership offers a fresh perspective on President Lincoln’s distinctive management philosophy and applies it to the pressing issues of the present day. Politics, civil rights, war, entitlement programs, federal versus state rights, environmental concerns—these are among the important topics that President Lincoln addressed in his time. How can Lincoln’s methods and wisdom be applied to the issues and conflicts facing America in the twenty-first century? In this engaging and exhaustively researched guidebook, bestselling author Donald T. Phillips offers a sweeping analysis of Lincoln’s leadership style and shows how Lincoln’s example could help forge solutions to the deep fractures in our nation today. ¶ “Convincing…poignant…an intelligent and often moving look at one of the nation’s greatest presidents.” —Publishers Weekly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781328745699
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	02/06/2018
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	319,580
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

A best-selling author of major works of nonfiction, DON T. PHILLIPS is known for his ability to tell stories and bring history alive with crisp, compelling prose. His trilogy on American leadership (Lincoln on Leadership, The Founding Fathers on Leadership, Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership) has won worldwide acclaim. His first book, Lincoln on Leadership, helped pave the way toward the creation of an entire new genre of books on historical leadership. Phillips has also collaborated on books with Mike Krzyzewski, Phil Mickelson, Greg Norman, Cal Ripken, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, and ESPN’s George Bodenheimer.

Table of Contents

Prelude 1

1 A Just and Generous and Prosperous System 8

2 Nonintervention in Other Countries as a Sacred Principle of International Law 24

3 To Emancipate the Mind 40

4 Rising with the Occasion 52

5 The Eternal Struggle Between Right and Wrong 66

6 The Tendency of Prosperity to Breed Tyrants 81

7 The Better Angels of Our Nature 97

8 With Firmness in the Right 112

9 The Middle Ground 128

10 No Less Than National 141

11 The Fiery Trial 159

12 The Thunderbolt 176

13 A More Elevated Position 192

14 A Fair Chance in the Race of Life 209

15 This Terrible, Bloody War 226

16 With Malice Toward None 243

17 Peace with All Nations 262

Finale 277

Acknowledgments 281

Notes 283

Bibliography 305

Index 309

Editorial Reviews

Phillips’s topical follow-up to his earlier Lincoln on Leadership begins by describing the nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln at his mother’s deathbed, listening to her last words: “Be good to one another.” That sets the tone for this intelligent and often moving look at one of the nation’s greatest presidents. Phillips portrays Lincoln as a gentle and sensitive boy who became the same type of leader, trying to maintain the Union in his early presidency while dealing with high casualty rates and soldiers gone AWOL. While Lincoln was a conscientious congressman who often made bipartisan overtures, he also took care to denounce the “evil spirit” of corruption he saw in Washington, D.C. Elsewhere, Phillips recalls a momentous biblical quotation from one of Lincoln’s early senate campaigns, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Using his extensive knowledge of Lincoln, Phillips makes convincing cases throughout for what the 19th-century statesman’s opinion would be on a wide array of issues faced by the 21st-century U.S., including climate change, torture, immigration, and equal pay for women. For readers who find present-day politics almost too much to contemplate, Phillips’s closing vision of Lincoln witnessing the “current state of affairs” will be especially poignant and bittersweet.”  —Publishers Weekly   “Donald T. Phillips has a gift for making 19th-century history relevant for the 21st century. Lincoln on Leadership for Today is a marvelous way to think about our current policy woes. Highly recommended!”  —Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University, CNN Presidential Historian, and author of the book Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America.   “Don Phillips has done it again…bringing Lincoln’s brilliant leadership to life. Lincoln’s brilliance is as relevant today as it was a century and half ago.”  —George Bodenheimer, Former President, ESPN, and author of Every Town is a Sports Town   —

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