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Nancy Koehn on Lincoln's Wartime Leadership [video, 3 minutes 41 seconds]

Harvard historian Nancy Koehn on how President Abraham Lincoln's found his leadership 'backbone.' (Video by Madeline Marshall, Akira Hakuta, Andrea Useem/The Washington Post)
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