Table of Contents
Preface: Wars of National Survival xi
Prologue 1
Abraham Lincoln before the Civil War 8
Winston Churchill before World War II 10
The Lincoln Team 13
The Churchill Team 15
Lincoln at War: A Few Key Battles of the Civil War 19
Churchill at War: A Few Key Military Operations in Europe during World War II 20
A Comparison 23
I Men of Character: Quintessential Leaders with Different Personalities 35
II The Unlikely Emergence of Lincoln and Churchill 55
III The Rhetoric of Leadership 71
IV Anglo-American Relations 87
V Virtues of Great War Leaders 107
VI Managing Ministers and Legislators 125
VII Finding and Managing Generals 149
VIII Army Leadership 181
IX 1862/1942 209
X 1863/1943 237
XI 1864/1944 255
XII 1865/1945 279
XIII Reelection and Reconstruction 293
XIV Managing Men at War-Lincoln Style 311
XV Managing Men at War-Churchill Style 331
XVI Legacies 353
XVII Epilogue 371
Historiography and Acknowledgments 385
Selected Bibliography on Abraham Lincoln 401
Selected Bibliography on Winston S. Churchill 407
Endnotes 413
Index 505
Biography of Lewis E. Lehrman 525