f reedom of a ction 201thereafter shifted to peripheral regions around the globe, ones just
emerging from colonialism. Th e United States henceforth would fi nd
itself engaged in limited wars, confl icts that did not threaten its survival
or even disrupt most of the routines of everyday life. For the presidents
who led the nation in these wars, leadership would present new com-
plications, ones for which the lessons of Lincoln, Wilson, and Roosevelt
might not apply.^