Sunday, September 28, 2008

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Team of Rivals (3)

This is the best book on Lincoln I've ever read. It provides the clearest account of Lincoln's rise to power, his views on slavery, the path to the Civil War, and how he governed. How Lincoln guided the North through the war is amazing. I never ceased to be amazed at how this country endured a war in which we killed 620,000 of ourselves.

Lincoln is the greatest American. No Lincoln, no country as we know it today.

Will we ever be blessed by another Abraham Lincoln?

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