Avlon explained why no one’s ever done a book about “Lincoln the Peacemaker” before. “There’s a pretty good reason,” said Avlon, he said, “which is that he’s assassinated five days after Appomattox, after Lee surrenders to Grant. But, as I show, he was developing a very consistent guide to how you win a peace after winning a war. You can’t simply pound your opponents into submission, you can’t salt the fields. You’ve gotta find a way to live together again, to work together again, to reason together again. … “So everyone’s got a role to play,” he continued. “Citizens, in terms of what we consume. Journalists, in terms of confronting it. And businesses specifically — your leadership and your credibility come from being willing to tell the truth and smack down disinformation. To not contribute to distortions of the truth simply because it’s advantageous in the short run. Being an honest broker is what’s gonna get you further in the long run.”