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2 days ago · Winner of the Lincoln Prize Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Abraham 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.
1 day ago · Team of Rivals Chapters 5-6: The Turbulent 1850s. Hello there, readers! In this week’s reading, we spent most of our time in the 1850s. That prelude decade to the Civil War was a slow burn of events that ultimately led to a great conflagration: The chronicle of the 1850s is, at bottom, a narrative of the increasing strain placed upon these ...
3 days ago · Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.
3 days ago · The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, is portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis in Steven Spielberg’s 2012 biographical historical drama Lincoln. The film was inspired on Doris...
1 day ago · Abraham Lincoln ( / ˈlɪŋkən / LING-kən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War, defending the nation as a constitutional union, defeating the insurgent Confederacy, playing a major ...
4 days ago · The Fiery Trial is not a biography, and the author has succeeded more than most in placing Lincoln in the context of the attitudes of those around him. But paradoxically, this swings back to the pre-eminence of his individual evolution when that context is one of abolitionists and persuasive African-Americans.
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6 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.
