Born to Fight

Gretchen Wollert, author of Born to Fight: Lincoln and Trump. Wollert is a small business owner, community educator and past chairman and current member of her local school board.

Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump are two of a kind despite terms in office separated by 150-plus years. Both encountered a biased press and deeply divisive political environments after being elected with less than 50 percent of the popular vote. Each was viewed as an ill-equipped outlier and accompanied to office by first ladies ostracized by Washington's elite. Lincoln was known by those closest to him for his supreme self-confidence, inexhaustible ambition, mean streak, braggadocio, arrogance, vanity, and knack for thriving amid conflict. Ditto Trump. Born to Fight shows that Trump is better understood through the many parallels linking him to Lincoln.

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BIO: Wollert is an award-winning high school athlete and four-year college volleyball athlete. She has a B.A. in History from Milligan College, and B.A. in English & Secondary Teacher Certification from University of Southern Colorado. Wollert is the owner of three successful small businesses, community educator for eight years at Eastern Wyoming College, past chairman and current member of local school board, a 4-H Community Club leader and volunteer educator, a Girl Scout club leader for two years, a Community Presbyterian Church member and volunteer, a Campaign volunteer in local and state elections, she Wrote op-eds in the local newspaper, and a mother of four daughters.

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