Books
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |
Supposedly inspiring Obama to choose his Presidential rival as Secretary of State, this evocative Civil War history examines the four politicians pipped at the post by Old Abe, the Illinois Rail Splitter, in 1860. The nobility and grace of the man Lincoln picked for this post, William H. Seward, shine though this excellent work of scholarship. Seward was attacked, and nearly killed, at the same time as Lincoln, thus further thwarting forever, his political ambition.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 79 Winter 2016) |
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