What is your best one-word description of President Abraham Lincoln's character?

[David Lockmiller]

(10-02-2023 11:18 AM)Rob Wick Wrote:  

Quote:You wrote in your post: "To look at Lincoln as "human" requires us to accept that for every virtue Lincoln had, he also had numerous vices and frailties."

I will disagree with that statement to the end of time.

And you will never have more than a child-like understanding of Lincoln.

Best
Rob

In your opinion, do Doris Kearns Goodwin and Professor Michael Burlingame each "have more than a child-like understanding of Lincoln?" Those are the two Lincoln historians that I quote most often, I believe.