War for the homeland.(Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln)(Book Review)

National Review | December 31, 2005| | Copyright

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, 944 pp., $35)

WHAT an irony that just as George W. Bush's presidency and reputation reach their low point, liberal historian Doris Kearns Goodwin comes riding to his rescue. By far her best book, Team of Rivals is Goodwin's account of how President Abraham Lincoln managed to turn a cabinet full of bitter former foes into his supporters' club and an indispensable instrument of victory in the Civil War. But the real theme is greatness under trial, and how an ...

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