DONALD T. PHILLIPSis known for his best-selling trilogy: Lincoln on Leadership, The Founding Fathers on Leadership, and Martin Luther King Jr. on Leadership. Lincoln on Leadership has sold more than a million copies. Phillips has coauthored best-selling books with Coach Mike Krzyzewski, Phil Mickelson, and Cal Ripken Jr., among others.
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
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