Lincoln’s Secret Weapon (It Wasn’t Power)

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How do you hold a country together when it’s tearing itself apart? In this episode, Ryan sits down with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to talk about Abraham Lincoln’s self-education, his emotional discipline, and how he managed anger, ego, and public pressure without losing himself. Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning presidential historian and bestselling author. Her latest #1 New York Times bestseller, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s , is being adapted into a feature film, while her earlier works, Team of Rivals , The Bully Pulpit , and No Ordinary Time , have won some of the nation’s highest literary honors and inspired…