Name: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
SKU: 1705491
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
ISBN: 9780743539135

portada Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Simon and Schuster Audio

Autor

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Año

2005

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Audio CD

Dimensiones

14x13 cm

Peso

ISBN

0743539133

ISBN13

9780743539135

Categorías

Biografía: histórica, política y militar

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin (Autor) · Simon and Schuster Audio · Audio CD

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Reseña del libro "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln"

One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes.

Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize and the inspiration for the Oscar Award winning–film Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Tony Kushner.

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, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war.

We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through.

This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.