Our political leaders should take a leaf out of Abraham Lincoln's books in the current crisis in our politics.
Jon Snow is at the Hay festival along it seems with the intelligentsia of the country.
Taking inspiration from Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln he writes that
Lincoln inherited an America bankrupted and divided by his predecessor James Buchanan (who until recent times held the unchallenged reputation as America’s worst president ever). Lincoln himself had a difficult wife and a 10-year-old son who died whilst he was in the White House.
Yet he managed to rebuild the economy, end the civil war, end slavery, and restore the reputation of politics in America in the five years before he was eventually shot dead in the theatre down the road from the White House.
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