| Author | Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
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| Title | Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln / Doris Kearns Goodwin.
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| Published | New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005.
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| Description | xix, 916 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-684-82490-6 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 978-0-684-82490-1 (hardcover) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 759-880) and index.
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| Formatted Note | 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.
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| Subjects | Genius -- Case studies.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Friends and associates.
Political leadership -- United States -- Case studies.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
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| LC Card Number | 2005-44615 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 457.45 G656
mq233776: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 140701] |
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