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3 days ago · Team of Rivals - The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, is one of the best. It was published in 2005 and tell the very personal story of Lincoln, the winning of his presidency, his struggles, personal and political, and his relationships with his cabinet (which were in fact his rivals in the election) and his generals.
13 hours ago · The film was inspired on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 2005 book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln recounted the events of the last four months of Abraham Lincoln’s ...
5 days ago · In the late 1840s, these four men were testing out their political ambitions. Lincoln was actually the most moderate of the bunch when it came to slavery; it wasn’t necessarily a heroic stance, but it was the most electable.
20 hours ago · The Radical Republican Convention. Many Republicans were dissatisfied with President Abraham Lincoln’s policies, including his “lenient” plan to bring the southern states back into the Union. Some had proposed replacing Lincoln with Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, but Chase had been discredited by the Pomeroy Circular.
1 day ago · Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War, defending the nation as a constitutional union, defeating the insurgent Confederacy, playing a major role in the abolition of slavery, expanding the power of the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy .
2 days ago · Lincoln Steven Spielberg's 2012 biographical historical drama starred Daniel Day-Lewis as US President Abraham Lincoln. Tony Kushner's screenplay, which focuses on the last four months of Abraham Lincoln's life, was partially inspired by Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.
3 days ago · As Doris Kearns explains in her great book on leadership, “Team of Rivals,” Lincoln took the very men who were his adversaries and put them in his cabinet because they were the best men for the job. They learned to follow his leadership and ultimately loved and embraced his personality.
