Format:
Book
Title:
Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln / Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Author:
Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
Call Number:
973.7092 Lincoln
Publisher, Date:
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005.
Description:
xix, 916 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Friends and associates.
Political leadership -- United States -- Case studies.
Genius -- Case studies.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
Contents:
Pt. 1. The rivals. Four men waiting -- The "longing to rise" -- The lure of politics -- "Plunder & conquest" -- The turbulent fifties -- The gathering storm -- Countdown to the nomination -- Showdown in Chicago -- "A man knows his own name" -- "An intensified crossword puzzle" -- "I am now public property" -- Pt. 2. Master among men. "Mystic chords of memory": Spring 1861 -- "The ball has opened": Summer 1861 -- "I do not intend to be sacrificed": Fall 1861 -- "My boy is gone": Winter 1862 -- "He was simply out-generaled": Spring 1862 -- "We are in the depths": Summer 1862 -- "My word is out": Fall 1862 -- "Fire in the rear": Winter-Spring 1863 -- "The tycoon is in fine whack": Summer 1863 -- "I feel trouble in the air": Summer-Fall 1863 -- "Still in wild water": Fall 1863 -- "There's a man in it!": Winter-Spring 1864 -- "Atlanta is ours": Summer-Fall 1864 -- "A sacred effort": Winter 1864-1865 -- The final weeks: Spring 1865.
ISBN:
9780743270755 (trade)
0684824906