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Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Strategies, Advice, and Words of Wisdom on Leadership, Responsibility, and Power
"Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can... a peacemaker... has a superior opportunity of being a good man."
True wisdom is ageless and always relevant. Though he died nearly a century and a half ago, Abraham Lincoln's ideas about leadership, power, perseverance, and more are as instructive today as when he wrote them.
This collection features some of his best-known works, such as the Gettysburg Address (often called the most famous speech in American History), the Emancipation Proclamation (often called the most important presidential act), highlights from the "A House Divided" speech and his two inaugural addresses, as well as excerpts from many lesser-known speeches, letters, and other writings.
They touch on a wide variety of topics, including:
-Leadership vs. Tyranny
-The Purpose of Power
-Work and Discipline
-Effective Communications
-Dealing with the Dangers of Public Opinion
-Understanding the Opposition
-Resolving Conflicts
-Determination in the Darkest Hours
-Asking for Help
-Forgiveness Without Compromise
Inspiring, insightful, enlightening, Lincoln's words live on, ready to guide us; all we need to do is listen.
True wisdom is ageless and always relevant. Though he died nearly a century and a half ago, Abraham Lincoln's ideas about leadership, power, perseverance, and more are as instructive today as when he wrote them.
This collection features some of his best-known works, such as the Gettysburg Address (often called the most famous speech in American History), the Emancipation Proclamation (often called the most important presidential act), highlights from the "A House Divided" speech and his two inaugural addresses, as well as excerpts from many lesser-known speeches, letters, and other writings.
They touch on a wide variety of topics, including:
-Leadership vs. Tyranny
-The Purpose of Power
-Work and Discipline
-Effective Communications
-Dealing with the Dangers of Public Opinion
-Understanding the Opposition
-Resolving Conflicts
-Determination in the Darkest Hours
-Asking for Help
-Forgiveness Without Compromise
Inspiring, insightful, enlightening, Lincoln's words live on, ready to guide us; all we need to do is listen.
- GenresLeadership
124 pages, Hardcover
First published October 20, 2011
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Abraham Lincoln
2,362 books1,965 followersAbraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States from 1861, led during the Civil War, and emancipated slaves in the south in 1863; shortly after the end, John Wilkes Booth assassinated him.
Abraham Lincoln, an American lawyer, politician, and man, served until 1865. Lincoln defended the American constitutional nation, defeated the insurgent Confederacy, abolished, expanded the power of the Federal government, and modernized the economy.
A mother bore him into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky, and parents reared on the frontier, primarily in Indiana. He educated as a lawyer in Whig party, joined legislature, and represented Illinois. In 1849, he returned to his successful law practice in Springfield, Illinois.
The Kansas–Nebraska act in 1854 opened the territories, angered him, and caused him to re-enter politics. He quickly joined the new Republican Party. He reached a national audience in the campaign debates against Stephen Arnold Douglas for Senate in 1858. Lincoln ran in 1860 and swept the north to gain victory. Other elements viewed his election as a threat and from the nation began seceding. During this time, the newly formed Confederate of America began seizing Federal military bases. A little over one month after Lincoln assumed, Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Following the bombardment, Lincoln mobilized forces to suppress the rebellion and restored.
Lincoln, a moderate, navigated a contentious array of factions with friends and opponents from the Democratic Party and Republican Party. His allies, the Democrats, and the radical Republicans, demanded harsh treatment of the Confederates. He exploited mutual enmity of the factions, carefully distributing political patronage, and appealed to the American people. Democrats, called "Copperheads," despised Lincoln, and some irreconcilable pro-Confederate elements went so far as to plot. People came to see his greatest address at Gettysburg as a most influential statement of American national purpose. Lincoln closely supervised the strategy and tactics in the effort, including the selection of generals, and implemented a naval blockade of the trade. He suspended habeas corpus in Maryland and elsewhere, and averted British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair. He issued the proclamation, which declared free those "in rebellion." It also directed the Navy to "recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons" and to receive them "into the armed service." Lincoln pressured border to outlaw, and he promoted the thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished, except as punishment for a crime.
Lincoln managed his own successful re-election campaign. He sought to heal the torn nation through reconciliation. On April 14, 1865, just five days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, he attended a play at theater of Ford in Washington, District of Columbia, with Mary Todd Lincoln, his wife, when Confederate sympathizer fatally shot him. People remember Lincoln as a martyr and a national hero for his time and for his efforts to preserve and abolish. Popular and scholarly polls often rank Lincoln as the greatest president in American history.
Abraham Lincoln, an American lawyer, politician, and man, served until 1865. Lincoln defended the American constitutional nation, defeated the insurgent Confederacy, abolished, expanded the power of the Federal government, and modernized the economy.
A mother bore him into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky, and parents reared on the frontier, primarily in Indiana. He educated as a lawyer in Whig party, joined legislature, and represented Illinois. In 1849, he returned to his successful law practice in Springfield, Illinois.
The Kansas–Nebraska act in 1854 opened the territories, angered him, and caused him to re-enter politics. He quickly joined the new Republican Party. He reached a national audience in the campaign debates against Stephen Arnold Douglas for Senate in 1858. Lincoln ran in 1860 and swept the north to gain victory. Other elements viewed his election as a threat and from the nation began seceding. During this time, the newly formed Confederate of America began seizing Federal military bases. A little over one month after Lincoln assumed, Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Following the bombardment, Lincoln mobilized forces to suppress the rebellion and restored.
Lincoln, a moderate, navigated a contentious array of factions with friends and opponents from the Democratic Party and Republican Party. His allies, the Democrats, and the radical Republicans, demanded harsh treatment of the Confederates. He exploited mutual enmity of the factions, carefully distributing political patronage, and appealed to the American people. Democrats, called "Copperheads," despised Lincoln, and some irreconcilable pro-Confederate elements went so far as to plot. People came to see his greatest address at Gettysburg as a most influential statement of American national purpose. Lincoln closely supervised the strategy and tactics in the effort, including the selection of generals, and implemented a naval blockade of the trade. He suspended habeas corpus in Maryland and elsewhere, and averted British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair. He issued the proclamation, which declared free those "in rebellion." It also directed the Navy to "recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons" and to receive them "into the armed service." Lincoln pressured border to outlaw, and he promoted the thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished, except as punishment for a crime.
Lincoln managed his own successful re-election campaign. He sought to heal the torn nation through reconciliation. On April 14, 1865, just five days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, he attended a play at theater of Ford in Washington, District of Columbia, with Mary Todd Lincoln, his wife, when Confederate sympathizer fatally shot him. People remember Lincoln as a martyr and a national hero for his time and for his efforts to preserve and abolish. Popular and scholarly polls often rank Lincoln as the greatest president in American history.
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January 5, 2025
I was looking for leadership advice, not speeches and letters.
Maybe someone else can get leadership advice, I didn’t.
Maybe someone else can get leadership advice, I didn’t.
April 3, 2018
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
- Letter to William H. Grigsby; August 3, 1858
- Letter to William H. Grigsby; August 3, 1858
July 20, 2015
Still my favorite POTUS.
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