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Lincoln, based on Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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. On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. 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. 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. It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history,

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Author

Doris Kearns Goodwin; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Paperbacks

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781410457905

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, History, Biography

Rating

4.29 / 5 (1,008 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14