Here's Talmage and his wife Claire with Pulitzer Prize winning historian James McPherson on Feb. 12, 2009, the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Talmage introduced Dr. McPherson at an event that day in Dallas commemorating the special occasion.In this bicentennial year of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, most Americans know that he grew up in a log cabin, had little formal education, was honest, trained himself to become a lawyer and lost many elections before becoming president. We know that he gave eloquent speeches, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, managed the Civil War to a successful conclusion for the Union and was assassinated shortly after the war ended.
These are the bones of Lincoln’s life.
Those seeking to identify exactly what it was that led to this man’s exalted status, so as to be able to plug in Lincoln’s experience to today’s challenges, naturally ask, “What exactly is the meat on these bones that made him the greatest president in American history?”
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