Lincoln used the speech, which was delivered in writing, to lay out his justification for the war. Goodheart spends a full chapter describing Lincoln’s extraordinary, months-long preparation to craft his speech for a special session of Congress beginning on July 4, 1861.
It contains one of the most amazing examples I’ve ever come across of a leader (in this case, Abraham Lincoln) going slow to go fast. From the raki ritual in Turkey to the peculiar institution of nemawashi in Japan, we have returned often to the theme that leaders sometimes need to “go slow to go fast.” At a friend’s recommendation, I read 1861: The Civil War Awakening, Adam Goodheart’s brilliant book on the lead-up to the US Civil War.
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