The character of wartime statesmen: Eliot Cohen discusses what made Lincoln, Clemenceau, Churchill and Ben-Gurion effective wartime leaders and analyzes how President George W. Bush stacks up.(Interview)

Insight on the News | May 13, 2003| | Copyright

Eliot Cohen is professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University's prestigious School for Advanced International Studies, also known as SAIS. But Cohen's influence ranges far beyond the classroom. His most recent book, Supreme Command, reportedly was read by President George W. Bush during Bush's 2002 summer vacation. In the book the author takes up the theme articulated by the subtitle, Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime.

Cohen writes about four great wartime statesmen: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, French leader Georges Clemenceau and World ...

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