Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)

from TadAD

As of this writing, there are 90 other reviews of this book on LibraryThing, so detailed descriptions of its content would seem rather superfluous...let me just cut to my opinion: this is easily one of my most absorbing reads for this year. It didn't start that way. The first few chapters were in...

from sjmccreary

The very substantial (over 900 pages in print or 42 hours in audio) examination of the political career of Abraham Lincoln. It begins with Lincoln's nomination as the Republican party's canditate for president in 1860, but then flashes back to examine the political paths that led Lincoln, and his...

from Citizenjoyce

Doris Kearns Goodwin quotes Tolstoy saying: "Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. When conservatives aren't trying to co-opt Lincoln as a...

from cyderry

I think I know Abraham Lincoln. This book has so many details and delves so deeply into the personality of Abraham Lincoln as well as his cabinet members that I feel as if I've actually met this man and what a great man he was. This book reveals the private details of the lives of Abraham and Mar...

from cyderry

I think I know Abraham Lincoln. This book has so many details and delves so deeply into the personality of Abraham Lincoln as well as his cabinet members that I feel as if I've actually met this man and what a great man he was. This book reveals the private details of the lives of Abraham and Mar...