Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader

Abraham Lincoln is our national lodestone, toward whom we as individuals collectively turn again and again for inspiration and insight, especially when facing a challenge, crisis, and possibly failure. Lincoln is America’s mentor and never fails to fascinate. But who were his mentors? To more fully understand Lincoln’s leadership, Michael Gerhardt turns his perspective to those this complicated president chose as teachers. Lincoln’s Mentors is a uniquely revealing story of Lincoln’s political education, his trajectory from the obscurity of “Spotty Lincoln" to “Great Emancipator.”