Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

English

ISBN: 0743539133

EAN: 9780743539135

Category: Political Science / General/Biography & Autobiography / General/History / United States / General/

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Release Date: 10/30/2005

Synopsis: Soon to be a major motion picture, Lincoln, from Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning writer Tony Kushner, and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the President and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. The acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincolns political genius in a 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. Each had energetically sought the presidency. Lincoln succeeded 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. This multiple biography is centered on Lincolns mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nations history.

Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Illustrated: No

Format: Compact Disc

Height: 1.3 inches

Width: 5.12 inches

Length: 5.88 inches

Weight: 8.75 oz