Posts Tagged as ‘Abraham Lincoln’

November 15, 2008

Should Obama choose Hillary?

So everybody is wondering whether Obama will choose Hillary to be his Secretary of State.
I’ve been thinking that he might do that ever since I heard Obama speak, during the primaries, about Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln shrewdly, wisely, disarmingly followed the advice to “keep your friends close and your enemies closer”. He brought his harshest political [...]

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November 1, 2008

More on parents and success

Thanks to Freda Zietlow for pointing me to this piece in the Wall Street Journal on the dysfunctional families of future presidents.
As you guys already know, in one chapter of my book I’m looking into the subtle and unsubtle ways that parents influence the future success and failure of their children. Hamilcar played a huge [...]

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July 26, 2008

Impostor Failure, Part III: Lincoln, Beatles, Disney … everybody!

And we haven’t even got to Hannibal, Fabius and Scipio yet!
Anyway, watch this, courtesy (with thanks) of Kate:

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