Lincoln and Leadership offers fresh perspectives on the 16th
president-making novel contributions to the scholarship of one of
the more studied figures of American history. The book explores
Lincoln's leadership through essays focused, respectively, on
Lincoln as commander-in-chief, deft political operator, and
powerful theologian. Taken together, the essays suggest the
interplay of military, political, and religious factors informing
Lincoln's thought and action and guiding the dynamics of his
leadership. The contributors, all respected scholars of the Civil
War era, focus on several critical moments in Lincoln's presidency
to understand the ways Lincoln understood and dealt with such
issues and concerns as emancipation, military strategy, relations
with his generals, the use of black troops, party politics and his
own re-election, the morality of the war, the place of America in
God's design, and the meaning and obligations of sustaining the
Union. Overall, they argue that Lincoln was simultaneously
consistent regarding his commitments to freedom, democratic
government, and Union but flexible, and sometimes contradictory, in
the means to preserve and extend them. They further point to the
ways that Lincoln's decision making defined the presidency and
recast understandings of American "exceptionalism." They emphasize
that the "real" Lincoln was an unabashed party man and shrewd
politician, a self-taught commander-in-chief, and a deeply
religious man who was self-confident in his ability to judge men
and to persuade them with words but unsure of what God demanded
from America for its collective sins of slavery. Randall Miller's
Introduction in particular provides essential weight to the notion
that Lincoln's presidential leadership must be seen as a series of
interlocking stories. In the end, the contributors collectively
remind readers that the Lincoln enshrined as the "Great
Emancipator" and "savior of the Union" was in life and practice a
work-in-progress. And they insist that "getting right with Lincoln"
requires seeing the intersections of his-and America's-military,
political, and religious interests and identities.
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