Scout Dialogue: Writers Collection

James McPherson

Special | 28m 48s | Video has closed captioning.

James McPherson is one of America’s greatest Civil War historians. In his latest book, “Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief,” he gives new insight into Abraham Lincoln’s remarkable skill as a military leader. This week on Dialogue, host Joan Cartan-Hansen talks with McPherson about Lincoln and why we are still fighting over some of the same issues we thrashed out in the Civil War.