December 9, 2011
Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief
HistoryLeadershipMilitaryPoliticsadminby James McPherson On this, the 200th Anniversary of perhaps our greatest President – I’m still holding out for Washington, but perhaps that’s on the basis of his entire body of work – it’s worth considering his role as Commander-in-Chief. Not merely as described in Eliot Cohen’s leadership study, Supreme Command, but his role specificallly in shaping policy, strategy, and operations. Other Presidents have had to fill that role, although none under such critical circumstances as Lincoln. James McPherson, who is rapidly becoming one of our finest popular Civil War […]
