Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [0]
Wait Till Next Year
A Memoir
No Ordinary Time
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“The conduct of the republican party in this nomination is a remarkable indication of small intellect, growing smaller. They pass over…statesmen and able men, and they take up a fourth rate lecturer, who cannot speak good grammar.”
—The New York Herald (May 19, 1860), commenting on Abraham Lincoln’s nomination for president at the Republican National Convention
“Why, if the old Greeks had had this man, what trilogies of plays—what epics—would have been made out of him! How the rhapsodes would have recited him! How quickly that quaint tall form would have enter’d into the region where men vitalize gods, and gods divinify men! But Lincoln, his times, his death—great as any, any age—belong altogether to our own.”
—Walt Whitman, “Death of Abraham Lincoln,” 1879
“The greatness of Napoleon, Caesar or Washington is only moonlight by the sun of Lincoln. His example is universal and will last thousands of years…. He was bigger than his country—bigger than all the Presidents together…and as a great character he will live as long as the world lives.”
—Leo Tolstoy, The World, New York, 1909
CONTENTS
Maps and Diagrams
Introduction
PART I THE RIVALS
1 Four Men Waiting
2 The “Longing to Rise”
3 The Lure of Politics
4 “Plunder & Conquest”
5 The Turbulent Fifties
6 The Gathering Storm
7 Countdown to the Nomination
8 Showdown in Chicago
9 “A Man Knows His Own Name”
10 “An Intensified Crossword Puzzle”
11 “I Am Now Public Property”
PART II MASTER AMONG MEN
12 “Mystic Chords of Memory”: Spring 1861
13 “The Ball Has Opened”: Summer 1861
14 “I Do Not Intend to Be Sacrificed”: Fall 1861
15 “My Boy Is Gone”: Winter 1862
16 “He Was Simply Out-Generaled”: Spring 1862
17 “We Are in the Depths”: Summer 1862
18 “My Word Is Out”: Fall 1862
19 “Fire in the Rear”: Winter–Spring 1863
20 “The Tycoon Is in Fine Whack”: Summer 1863
21 “I Feel Trouble in the Air”: Summer–Fall 1863
22 “Still in Wild Water”: Fall 1863
23 “There’s a Man in It!”: Winter–Spring 1864
24 “Atlanta Is Ours”: Summer–Fall 1864
25 “A Sacred Effort”: Winter 1864–1865
26 The Final Weeks: Spring 1865
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Credits
About the Author
Photographic Insert
MAPS AND DIAGRAMS
Washington, D.C., During the Civil War
Political Map of the United States, circa 1856
Second Floor of the Lincoln White House
The Peninsula Campaign
Battlefields of the Civil War
INTRODUCTION
IN 1876, the celebrated orator Frederick Douglass dedicated a monument in Washington, D.C., erected by black Americans to honor Abraham Lincoln. The former slave told his audience that “there is little necessity on this occasion to speak at length and critically of this great and good man, and of his high mission in the world. That ground has been fully occupied…. The whole field of fact and fancy has been gleaned and garnered. Any man can say things that are true of Abraham Lincoln, but no man can say anything that is new of Abraham Lincoln.”
Speaking only eleven years after Lincoln’s death, Douglass was too close to assess the fascination that this plain and complex,