Positive Review
I just read the review for Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin from the New York Times Book Review. James M. McPherson wrote the review. In case you don't know James McPherson, he is one of America's pre-eminent US historians and quite possibly the leading expert on the Civil War. Some McPherson quotes about Goodwin's book:
"Having previously offered fresh insights into Lyndon Johnson, the Kennedys and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Doris Kearns Goodwin has written an elegant, incisive study of Lincoln and leading members of his cabinet that will appeal to experts as well as to those whose knowledge of Lincoln is an amalgam of high school history and popular mythology."
"Lincoln's "political genius" enabled him to herd these political cats and keep them driving toward ultimate victory. How did he do it? Goodwin deals with this question better than any other writer."
"Within that sphere Goodwin has brilliantly described how Lincoln forged a team that preserved a nation and freed America from the curse of slavery."
Heady praise. I loved No Ordinary Time and I was already looking foward to reading Goodwin's new book. McPherson's praise only makes her book that much more enticing.
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