Lincoln and Leadership: Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making

Lincoln and Leadership: Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making. Edited by Randall M. Miller. The North's Civil War. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. Pp. [xvi], 135. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 978-0-82324345-7; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-4344-0.)

This collection of essays on Abraham Lincoln's leadership resulted from a conference sponsored by the Union League of Philadelphia's Abraham Lincoln Foundation in 2009. The volume includes a long introduction by the editor, Randall M. Miller, an afterword by Allen C. Guelzo, and the following essays: "Sowing the Wind and Reaping the Whirlwind: Abraham Lincoln as a War President," by Gregory J. W. Urwin; "Seeing Lincoln's Blind Memorandum," by Matthew Pinsker; and "Abraham Lincoln as Moral Leader: The Second Inaugural as America's Sermon to the World," by Harry S. Stout. The...