Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Hardcover Cloth 916 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Very Good. First edition later printing with corresponding number line. Hansome brown boards with black buckram spine and gilt embossing shows off this clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with the usual shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes, and wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
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.
Synopsis
Winner of the Lincoln Prize This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.
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- River House Books (US)
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- 656931
- Title
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Author
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684824906
- ISBN 13
- 9780684824901
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 916
- Size
- super octavo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Politics;
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