{"product_id":"lincolns-mentors-the-education-of-a-leader","title":"Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader","description":"A brilliant and novel examination of\nhow Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership\n“Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of other presidents, and more wisdom than every one of them. In this original, insightful book, Michael Gerhardt explains how this came to be.\" –H.W. Brands, Wall Street Journal\nIn 1849, when Abraham Lincoln\nreturned to Springfield, Illinois, after two seemingly uninspiring years in the\nU.S. House of Representatives, his political career appeared all but finished.\nHis sense of failure was so great that friends worried about his sanity. Yet\nwithin a decade, Lincoln would reenter politics, become a leader of the\nRepublican Party, win the 1860 presidential election, and keep America together\nduring its most perilous period. What accounted for the turnaround?\nAs Michael J. Gerhardt\nreveals, Lincoln’s reemergence followed the same path he had taken before, in\nwhich he read voraciously and learned from the successes, failures, oratory,\nand political maneuvering of a surprisingly diverse handful of men, some of\nwhom he had never met but others of whom he knew intimately—Henry Clay, Andrew\nJackson, Zachary Taylor, John Todd Stuart, and Orville Browning. From their\nexperiences and his own, Lincoln learned valuable lessons on leadership,\nmastering party politics, campaigning, conventions, understanding and using\nexecutive power, managing a cabinet, speechwriting and oratory, and—what would\nbecome his most enduring legacy—developing policies and rhetoric to match a\nconstitutional vision that spoke to the monumental challenges of his time.\nWithout these mentors,\nAbraham Lincoln would likely have remained a small-town lawyer—and without\nLincoln, the United States as we know it may not have survived. This book tells\nthe unique story of how Lincoln emerged from obscurity and learned how to lead.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0062877194\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0062877194.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Gerhardt, Michael J.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in excellent condition. There may be minimal writing on the inside cover or cover page. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48079541239985,"sku":"RDV.0062877194.VG","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0062877194-0.jpg?v=1792698697","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/lincolns-mentors-the-education-of-a-leader","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}