Praise for Lincoln on Leadership:
"Remarkable...a lively and entertaining study that delivers uncommon good sense."
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USA Today "If Lincoln's example were taken to heart, life undoubtedly would improve up and down the corporate line." —
New York Times“Intelligent and often moving look... poignant and bittersweet.”—
Publishers Weekly "Well-researched...deeply admiring...thought-provoking." —
Kirkus “ Don Phillips has done it again...bringing Lincoln’s remarkable leadership to life. Lincoln’s brilliance is as relevant today as it was a century and half ago." --
George Bodenheimer, former president and executive chairman, ESPN
Praise for Lincoln on Leadership:
"Remarkable...a lively and entertaining study that delivers uncommon good sense."
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USA Today"If Lincoln's example were taken to heart, life undoubtedly would improve up and down the corporate line."
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New York Times "An honest and useful look at Lincoln's leadership style...Phillips' timing couldn't be better." —
Chicago Tribune“ Don Phillips has done it again...bringing Lincoln’s remarkable leadership to life. Lincoln’s brilliance is as relevant today as it was a century and half ago." --
George Bodenheimer, former president and executive chairman, ESPN
Phillips’s topical follow-up to his earlier Lincoln on Leadership begins by describing the nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln at his mother’s deathbed, listening to her last words: “Be good to one another.” That sets the tone for this intelligent and often moving look at one of the nation’s greatest presidents. Phillips portrays Lincoln as a gentle and sensitive boy who became the same type of leader, trying to maintain the Union in his early presidency while dealing with high casualty rates and soldiers gone AWOL. While Lincoln was a conscientious congressman who often made bipartisan overtures, he also took care to denounce the “evil spirit” of corruption he saw in Washington, D.C. Elsewhere, Phillips recalls a momentous biblical quotation from one of Lincoln’s early senate campaigns, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Using his extensive knowledge of Lincoln, Phillips makes convincing cases throughout for what the 19th-century statesman’s opinion would be on a wide array of issues faced by the 21st-century U.S., including climate change, torture, immigration, and equal pay for women. For readers who find present-day politics almost too much to contemplate, Phillips’s closing vision of Lincoln witnessing the “current state of affairs” will be especially poignant and bittersweet.”
—Publishers Weekly “Donald T. Phillips has a gift for making 19th-century history relevant for the 21st century. Lincoln on Leadership for Today is a marvelous way to think about our current policy woes. Highly recommended!”
—Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University, CNN Presidential Historian, and author of the book Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America. “Don Phillips has done it again...bringing Lincoln’s brilliant leadership to life. Lincoln’s brilliance is as relevant today as it was a century and half ago.”
—George Bodenheimer, Former President, ESPN, and author of Every Town is a Sports Town 
