Title: TEAM OF RIVALS: THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: 06/07/2013

ASIN: 0684824906

Book Description:

Biography of Abraham Lincoln, centered on his mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation’s history. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each of his “rivals” energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. Lincoln’s understanding of human behavior and motivation enabled him to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war.

Book Contents:

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

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