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On this episode of Newt's World, Abraham Lincoln is with the single exception of George Washington, the most important president in American history.

Without Lincoln, the Civil War would have ended with the South leaving the Union with America broken.

Without Lincoln, the moral basis of freedom would never have been quite as articulate.

Without Lincoln, so many things that we take for granted would never have become true.

I'm going to try to share with you the essence of Lincoln, a man who is the most complex and probably the smartest person ever to occupy the White House.

What are the lessons of Lincoln?

What is it about Lincoln that made him so unusual, so effective and so important?

I've written four novels about the Civil War.

I've spent years studying Lincoln.

I think that he is at the center of defining America.

Abraham Lincoln's rise to greatness is really the classic American story.

The proof that you could really have almost nothing.

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