Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham LincolnSimon and Schuster, 2006 M12 8 - 944 páginas One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes. Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize and the inspiration for the Oscar Award winning–film Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Tony Kushner. 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. 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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... Republican National Convention “Why, if the old Greeks had had this man, what trilogies of plays—what epics—would have been made out of him! How the rhapsodes would have recited him! How quickly that quaint tall form would have enter'd ...
... Republican National Convention “Why, if the old Greeks had had this man, what trilogies of plays—what epics—would have been made out of him! How the rhapsodes would have recited him! How quickly that quaint tall form would have enter'd ...
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... Republican Party would nominate its candidate for president, Abraham Lincoln was up early. As he climbed the stairs to his plainly furnished law office on the west side of the public square in Springfield, Illinois, breakfast was being ...
... Republican Party would nominate its candidate for president, Abraham Lincoln was up early. As he climbed the stairs to his plainly furnished law office on the west side of the public square in Springfield, Illinois, breakfast was being ...
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... Republican state central committee; Leonard Swett, a lawyer from Bloomington who believed he knew Lincoln “as ... Republican Party—that curious amalgamation of former Whigs, antislavery Democrats, nativists, foreigners, radicals, and ...
... Republican state central committee; Leonard Swett, a lawyer from Bloomington who believed he knew Lincoln “as ... Republican Party—that curious amalgamation of former Whigs, antislavery Democrats, nativists, foreigners, radicals, and ...
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... Republican principles and the need to confine slavery to the places where it already existed. “The vast as- semblage frequently rang with cheers and shouts of applause, which were prolonged and intensified at the close. No man ever ...
... Republican principles and the need to confine slavery to the places where it already existed. “The vast as- semblage frequently rang with cheers and shouts of applause, which were prolonged and intensified at the close. No man ever ...
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... Republican circles. William Henry Seward had been a celebrated senator from New York for more than a decade and governor of his state for two terms before he went to Washington. Ohio's Salmon P. Chase, too, had been both senator and ...
... Republican circles. William Henry Seward had been a celebrated senator from New York for more than a decade and governor of his state for two terms before he went to Washington. Ohio's Salmon P. Chase, too, had been both senator and ...
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Political Map of the United States circa 1856 | 138 |
MASTER AMONG MEN | 321 |
CONTENTS | 330 |
Epilogue | 751 |
Notes | 759 |
Illustration Credits | 881 |
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
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