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The Lincoln Project

How to Be Abe Lincoln with Jonathan Shapiro

The Lincoln Project

The Lincoln Project

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Host Reed Galen is joined by Author, Television Writer/Producer, and Former Federal Prosecutor…Jonathan Shapiro. They discuss the life, mind, and leadership of our nation’s 16th president as well as the seven steps to being Abraham Lincoln as told through Shapiro’s newly released book, How to Be Abe Lincoln: Seven Steps to Leading a Legendary Life. The seven steps are laugh, improve, navigate, collaborate, object, love, and now. For more from Jonathan Shapiro, be sure to check out the book and the associated podcast, “How to Be Abe Lincoln”. For more from Reed Galen, be sure to subscribe to “The Home Front”. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Hey everyone it's Reed. Before we get started guys we're less than a year out

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less than a year out from election day 2024 please do all you can in your

0:40.2

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Go and find a campaign near your house. Run for something. Sign up to be a

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volunteer at a polling place. Do what you can. You don't have to do everything

1:00.9

gang, but you have to do that one thing. Figure out what that one thing

1:04.4

is and go out and make it happen. And now on with the show. Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Galen. Today I'm joined by author, television writer, and producer and former federal prosecutor Jonathan Shapiro.

1:27.0

Jonathan has spent over two decades writing and producing some of television's most iconic shows, including The Blacklist, The Practice, Life, and Boston Legal.

1:37.0

If a career in television wasn't enough, Jonathan spent a decade as a federal prosecutor and as an adjunct law professor at Loyola Law School and the University of

1:46.0

Southern California's Gould School of Law.

1:48.4

He is a graduate of Harvard University, a Rhodes Scholar at Oriel College, Oxford University, and received his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

1:57.0

Today he's coming to us from Los Angeles to discuss his newly released book, How to be Abe Lincoln, seven steps to leading a legendary life,

2:05.1

which is now available wherever fine books are sold.

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