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#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Turning Point of the Civil War
I would love to see a kind of humility from a history perspective. It's actually that Lincoln failed for so long that makes him a great president. He lost more battles than he won, but he learned and he got it right in the end. Same with Ulysses Grant. I'm just echoing Lincoln here. I don't want generals. I don’t want leaders who think they're going to get it right the first time because they're never going to getting it right thefirst time. Those who can work through failure learn from failure. And we as a society have to start doing that better. We have to not just trumpet the successes. Let's talk about where we
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