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. 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. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. She has also authored the book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.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. She has won several awards and accolades, including the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author (for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Home Front in World War II) has a Ph.D. The book was also adapted into a movie in 2012, directed by Steven Spielberg.ĭoris Kearns Goodwin is an American biographer, political commentator, and historian. President Barack Obama is said to have been inspired by Team of Rivals in constructing his own cabinet. This work won the Lincoln Prize in 2006, and the inaugural Book Prize for American History of the New-York Historical Society. Along with Lincoln’s biographical portrayal, three of his cabinet members who had previously run against him in the 1860 election: Edward Bates, Salmon P.
Team of Rivals focuses on Lincoln’s mostly successful efforts to reunite conflicting personalities and political groups on the path to abolition of slavery and triumph in the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln and some of the men who worked with him in the cabinet. When Lincoln emerged as the victor at the Republican National Convention, his rivals were dismayed.
Team of Rivals – The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, is an inspirational biographical account of the former U.S. Historian Goodwin illuminates Lincolns political genius, as the one-term congressman rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals to become president.
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