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It’s hard to overlook Abraham Lincoln.
For starters, the 16th U.S. president signed the Emancipation Proclamation Jan. 1, 1863 that ended slavery in the country. It’s also well known Lincoln was physically hard to miss, an imposing six foot four — the tallest of the 46 U.S. presidents. And, of course, he was so lauded for telling the truth the world-famous nickname Honest Abe lives on 159 years after he was assassinated.
What is sometimes overlooked with Lincoln — despite the 16,000 books written about him — is the soft set of skills he learned, and then exhibited, about leadership throughout his life. This is the message Louis Masur, a Lincoln expert and Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University in New Jersey, recently delivered in Southwest Florida.
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