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The political genius of Abraham Lincoln

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An edition of Team of Rivals (2003)

Team of Rivals

The political genius of Abraham Lincoln

  • 3.9 (9 ratings) ·
  • 139 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 12 Have read

Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.

On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.

Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires.

It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war.

We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through.
--front flap

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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
916

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York, USA
Genre
Case studies, Biography
Copyright Date
2005

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.7092 B
Library of Congress
E457.45 .G66 2005

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
916 p., [32] p. of plates :
Number of pages
916

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23274246M
Internet Archive
teamofrivalspoli00good
ISBN 10
0684824906
ISBN 13
9780684824901
LCCN
2005044615
OCLC/WorldCat
732767876
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0684824906
Google
4MS3BQAAQBAJ
Library Thing
30628
Goodreads
414879

Work Description

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is a 2005 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, published by Simon & Schuster. The book is a biographical portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and some of the men who served with him in his cabinet from 1861 to 1865. Three of his Cabinet members had previously run against Lincoln in the 1860 election: Attorney General Edward Bates, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase and Secretary of State William H. Seward. The book focuses on Lincoln's mostly successful attempts to reconcile conflicting personalities and political factions on the path to abolition and victory in the American Civil War.

Goodwin's sixth book, Team of Rivals was well received by critics and won the 2006 Lincoln Prize and the inaugural Book Prize for American History of the New-York Historical Society. US President Barack Obama cited it as one of his favorite books and was said to have used it as a model for constructing his own cabinet, although he later wrote this was not the reason he chose Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State. In 2012, a Steven Spielberg film based on the book was released to critical acclaim.

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On May 18,1860, the day when the Republican Party would nominate its candidate for president, Abraham Lincoln was up early.
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