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Roosevelt House welcomes John Avlon for a discussion with Roosevelt House Director Harold Holzer on his acclaimed new book, 'Lincoln and the Fight for Peace.'

As history has reminded us, leaders who wage war must simultaneously focus on devising exit strategies—and waging peace. No one understood this dual challenge better than America’s Civil War president, Abraham Lincoln.

Now, CNN senior on-air analyst—and best-selling historian—John Avlon has produced a timely, and timeless, account of Lincoln’s final, epochal months as both commander-in-chief and peacemaker: forcing the surrender of Confederate forces, eradicating slavery, re-building the shattered Union, and addressing the complex issues of post-war citizenship for Rebels and equal rights for the formerly enslaved.

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