Leadership, ideas but principally people who inspired and motivated him. Its a pleasure to welcome as our panel from my left to right, the author of the political life of Abraham Lincoln, volume i, a selfmade man, sidney blumenthal. And Richard Brook hihiser, and finally, the author not only of the recently published american ulysses, the life of ulysses s. Grant but the author of a. Lincoln and an expert in lincolns writings, ronald a. White. Welcome to you all. So our goal today is to hear from you and see if we can evoke some differences of opinion. We will certainly welcome audience participation and questions from our usual microphone. In fact, i will give you a signal in about 20 minutes or so to encourage you to line up and engage with us. The first person i want to talk to in relation to lincolns inspiration are the three sets of parents, really, not one person but three, the three sets of parents in his life. You have all written about them. By the three, i mean the woman he r
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