![]() ![]() ![]() administration- No ordinary time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The home front in World War II. ![]() In this Goodwin is replicating a successful formula from her Pulitzer prize-winning study of the personalities of the F.D.R. This book is really a collection of biographies of the many politicians who opposed and worked with Lincoln, their contributions to the age in which they lived and the foundations each of them built for the many changes that were effected during the Lincoln administration. This study offers a refreshing depth of focus on the careers of Lincoln’s peers, with Goodwin convincingly demonstrating that Lincoln’s political success was less determined by his own talents and ego, which could be matched by many of his contemporaries, than by his genius for handling the talents and egos of others. What sets Team of rivals apart is this acknowledgement of Lincoln as a being whose political legacy was predicated on his ability to forge working relationships with old adversaries to help preserve and then repair a disintegrating Union. According to Tarbell, researchers like to spend so much time with Lincoln because he was so ‘companionable’. ![]() When historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was asked why she undertook to produce a biography of perhaps the most documented political figure in American history, she cited the explanation offered by twentieth century writer Ida Tarbell. ![]()
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