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...MICHAEL BESCHLOSS Presidential Historian Use history to lead. Throughout the Cuban missile crisis, John Kennedy struggled to ensure that global war did not start by accident, as he knew it had in 1914. Even before our Civil War, Abraham Lincoln tried to use the "mystic chords of memory" that went back to the Revolution to draw Americans together again...
...become the only African American in the U.S. Senate--and just the third in the past 100 years. Although that alone should be ample cause for contemplation, Obama's is really a story about what might be. In the past year, Obama has been compared, in all seriousness, to Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. and Bill Clinton. Democrats debate whether he should run for President in 2012 or 2016. "No Chicago pol has heard this kind of flattery since an alderman compared Richard J. Daley to Jesus Christ," noted the Chicago Reader...
Most presidential elections are character- or theme-driven. This one was event driven. That's what happens in wartime. You can spin all the theories you want about how Abraham Lincoln won re-election in 1864, but if Sherman had not taken Atlanta, Lincoln would have lost...
...writer who has devoted much of his work to Lincoln, it should come as no surprise that Donald’s latest book covers him as well. However, Donald makes a daring move in historical biography by profiling the men behind the man. We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and his Friends, recently released in paperback, analyzes six key friendships in Lincoln’s life by blending psychoanalytic theory with historical fact...
...interest in Lincoln dates back to his graduate studies at the University of Illinois, Lincoln’s home from 1830-1861, where Donald reportedly became “ensnared” in Lincoln studies. Through a lifetime’s worth of scholarship, Donald has come to know Abraham Lincoln intimately. Would Donald and Lincoln have been friends if their lives had coincided...