Hard Cover
2005 · New York
by Goodwin, Doris Kearns
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x2x9. Reprint. Top edge of jacket bumped. 2005 Hard Cover. xix, [1], 916, [2] pp. 8vo. On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. (Inventory #: 2327622)