Discuss ‘Team of Rivals’
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“An elegant, incisive study of Lincoln...”
Discuss Doris Kearns Goodwin’s
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Ambraham Lincoln
, “an elegant, incisive study of Lincoln and leading members of his cabinet that will appeal to experts as well as to those whose knowledge of Lincoln is an amalgam of high school history and popular mythology.” Goodwin describes how Lincoln’s decision to appoint all of his rivals for the Republican party’s nomination, New York Senator William Henry Seward, Ohio Governor Salmon P. Chase, and Judge Edward Bates, “preserved a nation and freed America from the curse of slavery.”
— The New York Times.