J. Rufus Fears, Ph.D., will present “Abraham Lincoln: Leadership in a Time of Crisis.” He will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Charles B. Goddard Center located at 401 1st Ave. SW.
The Profiles Perspectives presentation is open to the public and offered at no cost courtesy of the Noble Foundation.
“We live in a critical period in the history of our country,” Fears said. “Our own time is as critical for the freedom of our nation as was the American Civil War. At that critical moment, America produced one of the greatest statesmen in history, Abraham Lincoln. My presentation examines the leadership that Lincoln gave our country in that time of crisis and draws lessons for the leadership we need today.”
Fears, who earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University, has published numerous books and articles in classical studies and the history of liberty. He looks at how lessons of the past can be applied to the present. He is the author of a series of widely acclaimed original books on tape, published by The Teaching Company: A History of Freedom, Famous Greeks, Famous Romans and Winston Churchill, among many others. His most recent book, “The Wisdom of History,” has been called “the Michael Jordan of history.”
Professor Fears has been featured weekly on national talk radio, and he lectures widely across the country to broad audiences on our American legacy of freedom and how we can preserve it in these challenging and dangerous times.
After the holiday break, Profiles and Perspectives picks up again with its spring offerings, which feature a look at cowboy ethics on Jan. 20, 2009, and Mars on March 3, 2009.
