Described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large to support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership Survey and James Buchanan always falls at the bottom of the list as the worst leader in american president ial history. How would you characterize his leadership skill
Historian susan schulten, our country has experienced several fraught president ial transitions but the 1860 transition between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln is described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large his support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership
I want my audience members to know, i want to bring this to you from head or high water. Hopefully just had. We have interruptions, i want to apologize before him for technical difficulties with the pending storm but its my pleasure to get this program started by passing it on to the museums stone historian and executive director of our institute for the study of war and democracy. Thanks and welcome to everyone from louisiana. Quite literally in the path of the storm, a few hours from the eye of the hurricane. The world is getting a lot of the ladder and we hope we dont get any today. We are really excited about todays program. Every now and then, you get to interview and author in the case of this particular author, this might be difficult but hes a writer, best selling author of numerous spy among friends great the trail, a great hes written and presented these documentaries of his work. He is a star in the field. Ben mcintyre welcome to the National World war ii about. Thank you so
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