by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Goodwin reconstructs Lincoln's decision to appoint his chief political rivals - Seward, Chase, and Bates - to his cabinet, turning adversaries into collaborators. Goodwin argues that Lincoln's emotional intelligence and willingness to absorb dissent were the cornerstones of his wartime leadership.
In this collection, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln references 3 other books and is cited by 3 other books.
It draws on The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Guns of August and Meditations.
It’s picked up by Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 and Wisdom Takes Work.
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Goodwin's narrative-history approach follows the tradition Shirer established for Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, reconstructing high-stakes politics through documentary sources
Goodwin has publicly credited Tuchman's Guns of August as the model for dramatic historical narrative that shaped her biographical method
Goodwin draws on the Stoic tradition Marcus Aurelius exemplified to frame Lincoln's equanimity under impossible pressure
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Parallels Goodwin's Team of Rivals methodology of political biography-as-history, applying it to statesmen from De Gaulle to Adenauer to Thatcher who rebuilt Europe
Echoes the statesmen-in-context method of Goodwin's Team of Rivals, using figures from Frederick the Great to Bismarck to illuminate how political leadership shaped a state's trajectory
Team of Rivals was one of Holiday's main sources for the Lincoln chapter, as part of the "9,000 pages on Lincoln" he read. He calls Goodwin's Leadership in Turbulent Times a companion that features a lot of her Lincoln work.
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Leadership in Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin
4 shared citations
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
3 shared citationsThe Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday
2 shared citationsThe Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
2 shared citations
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
Donald Robertson
2 shared citations
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
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