What is Reddit's opinion of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln?

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“Lincoln had a cabinet of yes men”— Ha Ha…he had quite a mix of political rivals occupying many of the most prominent post. If someone only sat down and wrote a book on that topic. Oh that’s right, someone did….

https://www.amazon.com/Team-Rivals-Political-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/0743270754

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is a personal fav. Focuses on the politics of the war and Lincoln, both of which are a good lens on the war and what came before/after.

Do you like history? I read the big Lincoln book, Team of Rivals. It took forever but man was it worth it. I learned so much and the book really humanized Lincoln for me. When I finished I decided to just read it again, I enjoyed it so much.

Please please please please read a book before asking such questions. Here: https://www.amazon.com/Team-Rivals-Political-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/0743270754

That will start to answer your questions, and it will then start make sense.

You can follow that up with: https://www.amazon.com/Path-Power-Years-Lyndon-Johnson/dp/0679729453/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1523289285&sr=1-1&keywords=path+to+power

That is the first of the LBJ series and describes in detail what changed and what Southern Democrats were.

There are other books in the LBJ series which will almost fully give you understanding.

You also read this one: https://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Life-John-Kennedy-1917-ebook/dp/B000Q67H36/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1523289385&sr=8-6&keywords=john+f+kennedy

After that you will know:

> How does this make any sense?

>no reason it can't Abraham Lincoln based his administration around it.
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>I think for to long Russia and the US have not communicated well. it has bred mistrust and now dislike. Putin had his selfish reasons for encouraging it. who would have thought I would long for the good old days of the USSR/USA level of friendship.

First I gotta say John McCain, he was actually the first political rally I ever attended in 2000 (during his early Republican Primary bid). However there was a few items that sorta pushed me to Barack Obama in the 2008 election, such as his vote against elevating MLK Day to a state holiday in Arizona (https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/apr/08/moveon/mccain-changed-position-on-mlk-day/) and the appointment of Sarah Palin as his running mate in that election cycle.

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Additionally, I've always been a big fan of Ike Eisenhower; I think he really pushed America to continue investing in its infrastructure, and not rest on the successes America achieved in WWII.

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And of course Lincoln is an interesting figure, sometime (sooner rather than later) I want to read the Doris Kearns Goodwin book, Team of Rivals, which was about Lincoln's cabinet. (https://www.amazon.com/Team-Rivals-Political-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/0743270754)

I've mostly just read textbooks and biographies.

But I'm currently reading "Team of Rivals" and it's pretty damned interesting.

https://www.amazon.ca/Team-Rivals-Political-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/0743270754

I personally believe that reading history is the single best way to understand the world we live in, how to put it in context and how to grapple with future events. If more people knew more about history, we would live in a much smarter society.

• Team of Rivals by Doris Goodwin

• 1776 by David McCullough

• John Adams also by David McCullough

• Edmund Morris's three-part biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Truly, truly great reading.

• The Worst Hard Time by Tim Egan

• Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse by Jared Diamond

There are scores of great books on different regions of the world as well, but obviously too many to list here. While these are primarily American histories, the lessons on the dynamics of human nature you see are often universal. Understand history.

To be fair, Lincoln did it too: <u>Team Of Rivals</u>.

This is not a favorable comparison of Trump to Lincoln, however.

Yes. For me, I heard very young that it was fought over slavery. Then, my southern relatives had me believe it was fought over states' rights. Then I read this and realized it was indeed fought over slavery.

These men despised slavery, not in a way that gained them votes or political superiority, but genuinely hated it. The idea that the Civil War was fought over states' rights is an attempt by southern states so somehow justify or excuse the practice.

I don’t really know. Have you read https://www.amazon.com/Team-Rivals-Political-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/0743270754?

The bottom line is he could hire Hillary “no fly zone, nuclear war with Russia” Clinton and I’d be mostly cool with that so long as he ignored everything she said.