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Abraham Lincoln is one of the great leaders in the world who born on February 12, 1809. He was a lawyer, statesman, and president of the United States. A person acquires the number of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills that made him a perfect leader. The main purpose of the paper is to analyze the skills and success of a great leader, "Abraham Lincoln" that made him strong and powerful.

Abraham Lincoln got success due to his soft skills. His soft skills include attitude, empathy, critical thinking, and communication skills ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"8JQ2CGoQ","properties":{"formattedCitation":"({\\i{}Characteristics of Abraham Lincoln as a Speaker})","plainCitation":"(Characteristics of Abraham Lincoln as a Speaker)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1460,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/6V9Y6J7Y"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/6V9Y6J7Y"],"itemData":{"id":1460,"type":"webpage","title":"Characteristics of Abraham Lincoln as a Speaker","URL":"http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/speaker.htm","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",10,14]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Characteristics of Abraham Lincoln as a Speaker). His interpersonal skills, like empathy, made him the most favorite person. He was so patient and polite that even in an argument, he used to listen to the whole opinion of the opponents and then used to give an answer with a positive attitude, honesty, and resiliency. His intrapersonal skills were excellent communication skills, critical thinking, and socio-economic interaction ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"aZwQIVVQ","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Brown)","plainCitation":"(Brown)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1463,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/MKZTTRBN"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/mlRB1JqV/items/MKZTTRBN"],"itemData":{"id":1463,"type":"article-journal","title":"The Servant Leadership of Abraham Lincoln","page":"7","source":"Zotero","abstract":"The article encompasses a theoretical servant leadership model that includes humility and empathy with respect to the United States presidency, specifically Abraham Lincoln’s time in office. Empathizing can be seen with respect to Lincoln’s understanding both sides of an issue in order to make an informed and best decision possible regarding the United States’ well-being. Lincoln’s time as President during the Civil War gave him the opportunity to show this empathy to both the North and the South through his speeches, significantly, his second inaugural address.","language":"en","author":[{"family":"Brown","given":"Crystal"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Brown). These characteristics were his strength that made him popular and powerful, and due to which, he brought a big change in American society. He showed one weakness that was unable to select powerful military leadership during wartime. During the civil war, the leadership of Abraham Lincoln played an important role in ensuring the union survived its major challenge. Lincoln abolished slavery by supporting the union which raised their voice against slavery. His knowledge of the law helped Lincoln and his supporters in the abolition of the slaves. In 1863, after being president, he issued Emancipation Proclamation that stated forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. Abraham Lincoln influence various other well-known personalities like Thomas Paine, Henry Clay, and Theodore Parker. 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Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times Book Review, called \"history writing of the highest order.\" In that volume, McPherson gathered in the broad sweep of events, the political, social, and cultural forces at work during the Civil War era. Now, in Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, he offers a series of thoughtful and engaging essays on aspects of Lincoln and the war that have rarely been discussed in depth. McPherson again displays his keen insight and sterling prose as he examines several critical themes in American history. He looks closely at the President's role as Commander-in-Chief of the Union forces, showing how Lincoln forged a national military strategy for victory. He explores the importance of Lincoln's great rhetorical skills, uncovering how--through parables and figurative language--he was uniquely able to communicate both the purpose of the war and a new meaning of liberty to the people of the North. In another section, McPherson examines the Civil War as a Second American Revolution, describing how the Republican Congress elected in 1860 passed an astonishing blitz of new laws (rivaling the first hundred days of the New Deal), and how the war not only destroyed the social structure of the old South, but radically altered the balance of power in America, ending 70 years of Southern power in the national government. The Civil War was the single most transforming and defining experience in American history, and Abraham Lincoln remains the most important figure in the pantheon of our mythology. These graceful essays, written by one of America's leading historians, offer fresh and unusual perspectives on both.","ISBN":"978-0-19-983205-7","note":"Google-Books-ID: MxhdJbSV38QC","language":"en","author":[{"family":"McPherson","given":"James M."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["1992",6,4]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (McPherson).

Therefore, it can be concluded that every leader acquires various interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, which enable him to influence other people and to acquire success in life.

Work Cited

ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Brown, Crystal. The Servant Leadership of Abraham Lincoln. 2015, p. 7.

Characteristics of Abraham Lincoln as a Speaker. http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/speaker.htm. Accessed 14 Oct. 2019.

McPherson, James M. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1992.