He felt thy pain: empathy was Lincoln's secret political weapon.(On Political Books)(Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln)(Book Review)

The Washington Monthly | March 1, 2006| | Copyright

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Kearns Goodwin Simon & Schuster, $35.00

We Americans somehow man-age to make a maximum hero out of Abraham Lincoln, a politician if there ever was one, at the same time we hold a heavy negative stereotype of "politicians" and "politics." In the immense popular legend that Lincoln has become, and in the endless outpouring of books, his life story and his personality often seem to upstage and obscure the "political" accomplishment that made his life story worth telling and his personality worth examining. We tend ...

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