Different Men, Different Backgrounds, Different Leadership

They were different men with different backgrounds and very different leadership styles.  Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill lived through remarkably comparable challenges in cataclysmic wars separated by a mere eight decades.  Brilliant writers and communicators, Churchill and Lincoln unified and rallied their nations in order to defeat well-armed challengers whose social ideologies held little respect for human liberty and dignity.  Theirs are the stories we tell here of great leaders.  Let them inspire a world still in need of their extraordinary leadership.

— Lewis E. Lehrman

Featured Works

Winston’s Declaration
Winston’s Declaration
By:  Lewis E. Lehrman 
By Lewis E. Lehrman July 4, 2014 - Putnam County News & Recorder Seventy years ago, the landing of Allied soldiers continued on Normandy’s beaches – four weeks after the initial D-Day landings on the French coast. On July 4, 1944, just west of the nearby city of Caen, Canadian troops began Operation Windsor – a bloody assault through French Continue Reading →
Lincoln, Churchill & D-Day
Lincoln, Churchill & D-Day
By:  Lewis E. Lehrman 
By Lewis E. Lehrman June 6, 2014 - Stamford Advocate President Abraham Lincoln, a student of Shakespeare's tragedies and histories, surely could have understood, in the overtures of Henry V, what transpired 80 years later in the invasion of Normandy. King Harry's Crispin-Crispian Day speech before the Battle of Agincourt evoked the momentous drama unfolding on the Normandy beaches, D-Day Continue Reading →
Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft
Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft Buy Now
Lincoln & Churchill: Statesmen at War
Lincoln & Churchill: Statesmen at War