Institute for Honor 2015: “Lincoln and the Founders" with Richard Brookhiser

Richard Brookhiser is the author most recently of "Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln" (Basic Books, 2014), and of eight books on revolutionary America: "Founding Father, Rediscovering George Washington;" "Rules of Civility-the 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace;" "Alexander Hamilton, American;" "America’s First Dynasty: The Adamses 1735-1918;" "Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution;" "What Would the Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers;" "George Washington on Leadership," and "James Madison." He is author and host of two films by Michael Pack: "Rediscovering George Washington" (PBS, 2002) and "Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton" (PBS, 2011). He was the historian curator of “Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America,” a 2004 exhibition at the New-York Historical Society. In 2008 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review.