We will presently discuss in class my hesitation to accept Donald's assessment of Lincoln's character -- or at least his leadership style -- as essentially passive. I'll share the various reasons for my demural at a suitable time, but you might get some feeling for why I think it incomplete from Karl Marx's unflattering description of Lincoln as president (Die Presse, October 12, 1862):
"Lincoln is not the product of a popular revolution. This plebeian, who
worked his way up from stone-breaker to Senator in Illinois, without
intellectual brilliance, without a particularly outstanding character,
without exceptional importance—an average person of good will, was
placed at the top by the interplay of the forces of universal suffrage
unaware of the great issues at stake."
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