On your comment about Lincoln it reminded me of something the historian William Manchester said about him in the beginning of his bio on MacArthur, “Lincoln is still misjudged. As Edmund Wilson has pointed out, the Civil War figure to whom Americans are introduced as children, and whom Carl Sandburg did so much to perpetuate, has little in common with the cool, aloof dictator who ruled this country unflinchingly as the sixteenth President of the United States. MacArthur shared Lincoln’s monumental will to win…”

Thanks,
Chris