Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. She won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II and is also the author of the bestsellers Wait Till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard N. Goodwin.
Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates 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, 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.
最先想读《Team of Rivals》,是因为听说是斯皮尔伯格要以本书为蓝本,拍摄林肯的传记。之后,我又在The Colbert Report上看到Doris Goodwin的采访,觉得这位作者颇为有趣,图书也大卖,此书可以一看。后来我计划撰写美国史和伟大总统,此书也就成为了工作书之一。 本来,这将...
评分最先想读《Team of Rivals》,是因为听说是斯皮尔伯格要以本书为蓝本,拍摄林肯的传记。之后,我又在The Colbert Report上看到Doris Goodwin的采访,觉得这位作者颇为有趣,图书也大卖,此书可以一看。后来我计划撰写美国史和伟大总统,此书也就成为了工作书之一。 本来,这将...
评分 评分 评分全书80多万字,内容丰富,正是我想要的不同林肯遗忘的那种传记,和单纯规模宏大的历史事件相比,事件中的人更令人关注,也许和人的年龄有关,以前比较热血沸腾,着迷于大事件,现在更多的钦佩那些在很多条件都不满足的情况下,坚韧不拔完成自己使命的人。 林肯在达...
瑜不掩瑕,还是好书
评分慢慢去体验林肯的思想。。
评分瑜不掩瑕,还是好书
评分几乎成为神的人,又那么的风趣幽默。不过……作者的溢美之词太多反而略显无趣。
评分Kindle电子书+Audible电子书,慢慢啃,慢慢听。
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