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>973 General history of North America; United States - Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
>>973.7902 - Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
>974 General history of North America; Northeastern United States
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... Eliot (this one will be finished by the weekend and I know it is one of the best.
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War by Agnes Humbert read in translation
The ...
I liked His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis. Two fairly recent ones getting positive reviews are Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin, and American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham.
Well, a good book about the presidency , the assassination, and the aftermath is Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
... The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry, The Known World by Edward P. Jones, and Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I'm especially excited about the Team of Rivals because I almost bought that full price when we were in Washington D.C. recently ...
OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I got lucky somehow today. You only nailed me with House of Rain which sounds fascinating to me. You would have with Abraham but I have the Feiler collection and you definitely would have had me racing to the bookshop for the Steinbeck, but I have all of those as well.
The best ...
4) Christianity & Religion (fiction & nonfiction):
1. Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler
2. Abraham by Bruce Feiler
3. Where God Was Born by Bruce Feiler
4. The Torah Blessing by Larry Huch
5. Knowing Scripture by R.C. Sproul
6. Apocalypse Code by Hal Linds ...
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Three Cups of Tea
My Life in France
Omnivore's Dilemma
White Man's Burden
The Third Chimpanzee
Team of Rivals
Post-American World
... four books that I wish would resurface immediately but that I have little hope for:
The History of Love
Team of Rivals
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Geography of Bliss
And there are another half dozen that came to mind as I typed this sure I would put them in, ...
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Suggestions: Undaunted Courage, Albion's Seed, Parting the Waters, His Excellency, George Washington, Team of Rivals , Theodore Rex, Indian Givers, With Malice Toward None,
Inheriting a Trade - own, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
...
Julius Caesar
Brave New World
The Iliad
The Odyssey
900 – History
The Battle for Gaul
The Civil War
Team of Rivals
No Ordinary Time
So far this month I have added the following to my library: Walking the Bible, Abraham , Where God was Born all by Bruce Feiler and Home (so excited!~!) by Marilynne Robinson. But I have many more on order that should be arriving shortly.
belva
Amazon.com came to call to day and staying over with me are:
Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler
Abraham by Bruce Feiler (wrong touchstones)
Where God was Born by Bruce Feiler
Home by Marilynne Robinson Yea!~! Have been waiting and waiting for this one.
I am so excited ...
Well this week I have finished both Midnight's Children and the non fiction Team of Rivals and now am in the midst of Anna Karenina.
Also as a couple of short reads over the last couple of nights I have read Silk and The Alchemist, one of which I loved the other the polar opposite, as ...
... difficult to specify only one.
I agree with those who recommended The Battle Cry of Freedom. I would also recommend Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, which considers the political dimension of Lincoln's leadership during the Civil War, Marching Through Georgia by Lee Kennett (Sher ...
... this, I get it, what beautiful language, can't wait to read on.
And that is where I am now,
My non fiction read Team of Rivals has taken a back seat this week
... Metaphors for Projection in the Works of Wyndom Lewis, Charles Williams and Graham Greene. I'm still plowing through Team of Rivals and I'm starting Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout for a book club in August.
... Jews and Engulfing Women: Metaphors of Projection in the Works of .... And, of course, I am still plowing through Team of Rivals . I need to read some novels as an antidote!
... but still love LT and reading other people's threads. I enjoy listening to Goodwin on Charlie Rose, so will probably read Team of Rivals eventually. In the past, it's been the kind of book that I buy, but don't read much beyond the first few chapters. I think I'm getting even lazier as I'm ...
I've read Abraham and thoroughly enjoyed it. Walking the Bible is on my shelf. I did watch & enjoy the PBS series--I guess that would have been a good time to have read it. I never think of those things...
#6 Team of Rivals by Doris Goodwin
It must be hard to sell yet another biography of Lincoln to your publishers. Doris Goodwin tries to distinguish her works from her predecessors by looking at Lincoln through the eyes of his rivals for the Republican nomination - Seward, Chase and Bates.
Th ...
This week reading The Brothers Karamazov and Team of Rivals . Unfortunately reading speed has been affected by both The Open the the 2nd Test :-)
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I found Team of Rivals to be a pretty easy read.. I bet you will too if you get into it a bit.. and if you enjoy reading history.... if not, donate it! LOL
I loved TEAM OF RIVALS . Bloody marvelous book. I had a clearer appreciation of Lincoln's people-handling skills and astute and well-honed political acumen after reading that one.
... on my views it has certainly encouraged the choice of my next reading treats.
My non fiction read continues to be Team of Rivals , a book I'm thoroughly enjoying, though once War and Peace has concluded perhaps my consumption of it will increase.
So looking ahead my next reads will ...
... on my views it has certainly encouraged the choice of my next reading treats.
My non fiction read continues to be Team of Rivals , a book I'm thoroughly enjoying, though once War and Peace has concluded perhaps my consumption of it will increase.
So looking ahead my next reads will ...
reposting in the right week...
Plain Truth and Team of Rivals both good reads...
I am still with Yes My Darling Daughter, as I have been distracted by life and the phone.... and the explosions my neighbors are enjoying ( bah humbug )
can I just remind y'all that
http://www.bookcl ...
... be saying this for a few weeks yet; I'm near the beginning of War and Peace
and for something different I'm enjoying Team of Rivals
150 pages into Team of Rivals by Doris Goodwin. Hugely enjoyable so far.
Will follow up with Me Cheeta and the Eyre Affair. Not sure what after that.
... Guide to Email for Office and Home by David Shipley and Only Words by Catherine McKinnon. Still plugging through Team of Rivals through no fault of Doris Kearns Goodwin--it's a darn good read, but June got hectic with book club reads. So many books so little time!
Well, I've finished all the books I started the week with, apart from Team of Rivals . So in a fit of enthusiasm I thought I'd attack War and Peace for the first time.
This may be a problem however as, would you believe it, I may have prolapsed a disc in my neck a couple of days ago.
Not ...
... it isn't strictly a biography of George Washington. I'd contend it isn't a biography of Washington in the same way Team of Rivals
... now thoroughly enjoying it. I've just started this morning Captain Corelli's Mandolin and last night as a long term read Team of Rivals
That's it, three is my limit :-)
#228 Hi, BookMarkMe! I think you will enjoy Team of Rivals . I loved it ~ thought it was brilliant, actually.
And now you've convinced me to add Battle Cry of Freedom to my TBR list.
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And just to prove what an addictive place LT is, I've now had to add Team of Rivals to my currently reading list.
Not being American its all new to me but I couldn't resist the book after thoroughly enjoying Battle Cry of Freedom, probably the best one volume history ...
Woohoo progress.. (sort of)
finished Team of Rivals which I've been reading off and on since January.
Picking up and putting down Complete Beatrix Potter: 23 Tales, starting A Month of Summer checking it for sex, profanity and violence (for work), and Number One Ladies' Detective Agency ...
I've been reading Team of Rivals off and on since January. Only 65 pages to go.
Next up Number One Ladies' Detective Agency. I love that show on HBO and am ready for next season.
... Kit Learns a Lesson
7 Dead Until Dark
8 Girl with the Pearl Earring
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Non-Fiction
1 The Purity Myth 6.15
2 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 6.26
3 Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection 7.14
4 Assassina ...
... I feel the same, about not knowing enough... but I feel that way about everything, not just the presidents.
When I read Team , ( heave to the top, LOL) I read other books along side it. I don't remember what they were. It was a fairly fast read considering its heft :)
I liked Team a lot. It was informative and interesting. Easy to read :)
eek! I am challenged enough, I think.. :P
No more challenges for me. I admire you for doing this though.
Have you red Team of Rivals ?
... — hah! Don’t think I haven’t noticed before. I was just waiting for you to admit it. I’ve seen your iPod, with the Team of Rivals download. And the time you drove into the garage, with the David Sedaris CD blaring away — I could hear your laughter all the way upstairs on the ...
... The Secret History
82. Girl, Interrupted
83. Einstein's Dreams
84. Blue Hill Avenue
85. The City Below
86. Team of Rivals
87. The Handmaid's Tail
88. Bringing Down The House
89. The Rise of Silas Lapham
90. Not Without Peril
91. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's ...
In Cold Blood
Truman
Team of Rivals
Enrique's Journey
Survival in Auschwitz
Voyage of the Beagle
I haven't read enough of the important biographies and histories, but certainly those regarding Alexander the Great, Catherine the Great, Winston Churchill, Lincoln, John Adams, Jef ...
... My Wars are Laid Away in Books . It's not bad, but the last book that took me this long was the exceptional Team of Rivals
... Series **, A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation *1/2
#16 - Abraham Lincoln Team of Rivals **** 1/2
#32 - Franklin Roosevelt No Ordinary Time *****, FDR ***
#42 - Bill Clinton My Life ***, The Hunting of the President ****, Behind the Ova ...
Thank you both for the recommendation!
33. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- This book is absolutely wonderful, compelling and captivating from cover to cover. An absolute must-read for any lover of American history or politics. A five star ...
I finished Team of Rivals , which was incredible. I loved it so much that I'm sad I'm finished with it!
My next non-fic will be Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin.
Got a little side tracked and started reading We are Lincoln Men instead of Team of Rivals . It has been a fast read so far. It details the friendships that influenced Abraham Lincoln. He had many friendly acquaintances, but very few close personal friends. Like a lot of politicians, and Linc ...
... I am going to punt a bit. I'll limit my response to within the last four years, as that is what is freshest in my mind.
Team of Rivals
Omnivore's Dilemma
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Washington's Crossing
Under the Banner of Heaven
Guns, Germs, and Steel
John Adams
Beak of the Finch
... like Goblins! and You Suck ... you're making me feel dumb! LOL... Maybe I should brain up a little and dig Team of Rivals out of the back of Mt. TBR. You know, just to read a smart book.
Congrats on book 50, you're a bit ahead of me, I think I'm on book 42 right now. ;-)
I'm about halfway through Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, and it's excellent so far.
... I'm still in Springfield Illinois with Abe and Mary Lincoln where he is choosing his Cabinet after being elected President Team of Rivals but I've also ventured into Manchuria around 1937-38 with three generations of Chinese women in Wild Swans by Jung Chang.
The best book I have read in 2009 is
Fiction / The Hummingbird's Daughter
non fiction / Team of Rivals
fantasy / The Mystery of Grace
also very good.. in no particular order:
Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska
The Bestiary
A Certain Slant of Light
The Physick B ...
... sooner. I'm 41 pages into it; at the moment, I'm going to compare it to McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom and Goodwin's Team of Rivals in terms of setting events in context. If it holds up, it will definitely rank right up there with those two books in my estimation.
This is one of those ...
... Glass Palace, and really enjoyed it. Of course, it is historical rather than contemporary.
BTW, I finally finished Team of Rivals , but am still working on Diary of Gideon Welles. I am attending a judges' seminar in June for which one of the recommended readings is Lincoln's Constitut ...
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#1 Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
#2 George Washington: A Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman
... the last book in the Percy Jackson series, but Percy will be making appearances in other related series.
And still Team of Rivals .
I went to a book signing / release party for The Last Olympian. There was a climbing wall, "Meet the Oracle", camp games like tug of war, and all these ...
... Gladwell in my TBR pile, and I know he's been on the show, more than once I think.
I just picked up Goodwin's Team of Rivals from the library, I'm hoping to start one that this week.
I have to finish my final exams first, school is sucking away all my reading time. And yet I ...
Realized I haven't mentioned yet that I have read Lincoln's Melancholy and Team of Rivals - both are excellent, I highly recommend them!
The first attempts to take a psychological profile of Lincoln and assesses that his melancholia, may have been undiagnosed depression. It analyzes events ...
It's 1860 and I'm in Springfield Illinois with "Honest Abe" in Team of Rivals . If he was with us today, he would undoubtedly be a member of LT for Kearns Goodwin writes, "Everywhere he went, Lincoln carried a book with him."
... won the Pulitzer for Olive Kitteridge. I'm going to take you up on your remarkable recommendation!
Currently reading Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gilead: A novel by Marilynne Robinson for a book club discussion.
Just finished an interesting book: Between Women by Susie Orbach and Luise Eichenbaum and have started Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, which as you may know is a BIGGGG book, but propped up on a pillow is quite manageable as well as quite readable. It took Kearns Goodwin a decade to ...
Team of Rivals was wonderful
The Hummingbird's Daughter ~ fantastic
The Bestiary and A Trip to The Stars
The Mystery of Grace ~ loved them all
are some of my favorites of the year so far.
... have just starte3d Band of Brothers and really enjoy Stephen Ambrose. Probably after this one, I will be going on to Team of Rivals .
... Their Hopes today, and am really itching to start it. I am going to restrain myself, I think, until I get to that time in Team of Rivals so I have a better understanding of the context. Moving slowly through that because it is the book I read at night when it is quiet and I can concentrate. U ...
... in Women's Friendships by Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach and I'm preparing to take on Doris Kearns Goodwin's big book Team of Rivals .Non-fiction threads will probably not hear from me for months!
Well, most of my history in American History this quarter has been pretty good. The real standouts were Team of Rivals Paul Revere's Ride .
... reads, I've chosen Between Women by Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach who also wrote Fat is a Feminist Issue and Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, a BIG book about Abraham Lincoln. So glad to see women historians selling books!
I'll be interested to see what you think, linda.
And I took Team of Rivals off my biography list. I couldn't get into it, but maybe I will give it another try later. So of course, I immediately started two more books - The Sea for Breakfast, a memoir set in Scotland, and Fragile Things by N ...
... of Saul Bellow's Augie March, the tough talking, play all the angles, character of "hard boiledom." Next I am eyeing Team of Rivals but my serendipitous pile of TBRs is also beckoning.
... story?
I generally avoid short stories, but Charles De Lint has written a few that I like
28) Work of nonfiction?
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Charles De Lint
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephanie Meyer
...
... but I love the short stories by Somerset Maugham
28) Work of nonfiction?
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, River of Doubt by Candice Millard, Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour
29) Who is your favorite writer?
...
... The Queen's Man from the library along with Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. I am reading Team of Rivals at night. I have The Nine from the library and decided I had to start reading that because it is due back next week. And my mother expects me to at her ...
I read Team of Rivals although I can't call it a new title. That and Lincoln's and His Generals would be good to read for his memorial.
I did just get The Lincoln Anthology. It has articles on Lincoln beginning with William Cullen Bryant on the Cooper Union speech through an excerpt ...
... 139 years later.
Also, even though it is ostensibly work related reading, I am enjoying reading it at the same time as Team of Rivals in which Goodwin discusses the political climate in Illinois leading up to the time Lincoln was elected president.
... Doran could not overcome his screenwriter training and mentality.
So, I have had my fluff break and am going back to Team of Rivals , Diary of Gideon Welles, and History of Florence.
... Tribe!
I like to read just one book at a time too, as soon as I finish my current fiction book, I'll be starting Team of Rivals .
#103, 105 ~ Team of Rivals is one of my all-time favorites. It's only one of two non-fiction books that have made it there. It's so worth the time it takes to read!
mckait : I have Team of Rivals on Mt. TBR, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I've pulled it off the shelf a few times, but the size of it is a bit intimitdating, so I put it back. I might give it a go, though, since it's on your top reads list.
The Hummingbird's Daughter
A Certain Slant of Light
Team of Rivals
The Bestiary
#39 - A friend, knowing of my daily commute and interest in history, recently gifted me the unabridged audiobook version of Team of Rivals - It's 34 CDs !!! I've never listened to an audiobook longer that 15 CDs - I'm flabbergasted, and just a little intimidated.
#39 & #42: Team of Rivals is a terrific book and I hope you both enjoy it!
I agree with the comments about Igraine, Roni, it does sound like a fun book.
I have Team of Rivals slated for my 999 Civil War read -- I plan to get to it after my "teaching" year ends--i.e., this summer! :-)
Books that came into my house this week:
Trip to Costco:
Team of Rivals and
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, both as a result of LT recommendations.
School Book Fair:
Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
The Key to Rondo by Emily Rodda
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis ...
For a minute I thought I wasn't going to have read enough books in this quarter, because Team of Rivals
1. David Hackett Fis ...
Just finished Team of Rivals Paul Revere's Ride which also promises to be a good book.
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I read Mayflower , but it was a good year or two ago and my recollection of it is a bit too hazy now ...
I finished Team of Rivals yes, two months ) in the Civil War, I'm moving bacwards a bit ...
... to see if they have one they are reproducing.
Anyway, thanks for the recommendation, Joyce. I will read it alongside Team of Rivals since I have started it, and the diary is just going to be too interesting to wait.
When I finally make it over to the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop I am ...
I'm steadily working on Team of Rivals not want to think about how long it would be taking me to get through if it were a less engaging book.
That said, even with the 120 pages of end notes (in practically microscopic print, no less) I'm still clearly nearer the ...
... I like to reach short passages at a sitting. I can also feel I have finished something when I'm reading other books like Team of Rivals .
... not be as enjoyable, however, without first having read John Adams or a similar book, just as you say it is best to read Team of Rivals before reading Welles. Since My Dearest Friend is simply a select collection of the correspondence between John and Abigail with the barest comments from ...
... Oh, and let me say that given your predilection for social and/or political history, you're going to be fascinated with Team of Rivals . I think it's one of those books--if you're into history at all--that is hard to put down--keeps you up far beyond your bedtime, reading!
I continue to ...
Joyce, re: 229 and 232
Please stop! I am crying "uncle"!
I happened to pick up a copy of Team of Rivals at Costco a couple of weeks ago, but had put in generally on the TBR pile. Now I am going to have to get into it just as soon as I finish My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John ...
Lots of books going right now..
from a friend I have borrowed Team of Rivals but like others I'm picking at it, and library books I have Testimony going (there's a wait of people after me). I like hearing the story from multiple characters point of view in very short chapters. The story deals ...
... read it.
This diary is gold.
ETA: I should add that I first became interested in the diaries while reading Goodwin's Team of Rivals . She quotes from Welles' diaries extensively. I had read about him before--he was a prominent member of the Cabinet--and maybe one or two quotes in other ...
>63: AnnaClaire - I'm reading Team of Rivals too and because I came down with a particularly vicious flu, I'm finding it not only hard reading because it's so filled with detail, but that because I kept getting tired so easily, I lost the thread often, having to go back and reread pages again. So ...
Still working on Team of Rivals
#s 54 & 55 AnnaClaire and Storeetllr: I'm planning to start Team of Rivals soon and I'm glad to hear that it's a worthwhile read. I've been looking forward to it. I've seen Doris Kearns Goodwin interviewed and she strikes me as infinitely equal to the task.
... the Secret Fan and looking forward to joining Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois as he builds his administration in Team of Rivals .
... so clever at transcending what might be considered their stultifying lives. I will be reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals later this month (and probably well into the spring since it's a BIG book!)
Broke open the cover of Team of Rivals by Doris Goodwin yesterday and I think this book is going to take me quite a while to get through it. So as a break from it, I'm also reading Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
... to read it until the end of March, however, so I'm determined to finish Nixonland and plunge into another doorstopper, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. For yet another April book club I will be reading The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.
I'm working on Team of Rivals looong book*, but I'm already a good quarter of the way through.
Still plugging away at Team of Rivals
... Tattoo, and so far liking it. Listening to, The Given Day and really liking it. And am still slowly working through Team of Rivals . All in all, a good bunch.
Thank you for the recommendations. I am reading Team of Rivals , and was particularly enlightened by your post describing just how few people took the South into war. I never knew that before. It is really kind of amazing. All of that death, tragedy and horror, all of that blood, and so few people ...
Team of Rivals was a wonderful read. It may be daunting to some, but it is well worth the time it takes to read. I have to say that this is the first time in a very long time I read a book in the background of other books. My husband ( who in the 40 yrs I have known him has never read an entire ...
#149: Kath, I am glad that you liked Team of Rivals . It was one of my memorable reads several years ago.
I cannot wait to see your review of The Hummingbird's Daughter. It looks very good.
Still working on Team of Rivals The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe ( link ).
I just finished Team of Rivals , and We Are The Cat. I am about .33 through Hummingbird's Daughter.
I have done little all day but read.
Team of Rivals , an extraordinary telling of the life of Abraham Lincoln and the men who ran against him, then worked with him during his years in office The horrors of the Civil War, as well a personal grief and loss are all brought together to form this picture of a man without measure.
It ...
still going with Team of Rivals though less so because of various due back at the library commitments.
Finished Battle of the Labyrinth the foruth book in the Percy Jackson series. And an now anxiously waiting for book 5 (May 8th)! Did I mention how much I love this series?
I also started A ...
Good to hear about the Lamb book.I look forward to it. I like his writing too, porchy :)
Almost finished with Team of Rivals , and just started Hummingbirds Daughter
... a beautiful picture of Saskatoon. Fall trip, fall trip.... yippeee!
>135, billiecat, I am heartened by your review of Team of Rivals . I have the book and it's on my TBR pile. I've been wondering when I would start to tackle this because while I am very interested in reading it, I've also ...
AnnaClaire, I thought Team of Rivals was very good, surprisingly so for so hyped a book. I thought the expansion of the biography to cover other prominent men from the period really did flesh out Lincoln in interesting ways.
I'm still working on Team of Rivals The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe .
... the global list to read: May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons by Elisabeth Bumiller. And in the non-fiction category: Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
I'm still plowing through Nixonland by Rick Perlstein and aiming to start another door stopper, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin as soon as I finish with Nixon (an infinitely interesting political villain)! Still have Hot Flat and Crowded on the tbr pile.
... read recently on a plane and asked for my explication: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. Just received from Amazon: Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin and picked up the following from a book cart outside the new bookstore just opened in my area: May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Son ...
... also usually have another, fluffier fiction book going at the same time just to change it up a bit. Right now I am reading Team of Rivals . Its great but big. I do go back to reference a fact or a name I might not recollect but taking notes seems a lot like school.
... this to everyone who wants to know the origins of the war--do read The Impending Crisis. Heavens, let us not forget Team of Rivals !
I have not read at least 4 of the books you mention, especially the 1858 book you ask about. There are many good books on the war that I have not ...
He "was not crazy," maintained Elizabeth Abell.
From Team of Rivals
... Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Balkan Ghosts by Robert D. Kaplan
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky
The Lost Lady of the Amazon by Anthony Smith
I Capture the Castle by Dodie S ...
... be done with it and have my list of questions and comments ready before our club meeting next Friday.
I also started Team of Rivals last night but this is such a large tome that I suspect I'll be with this for quite some time.
# 30.. I'm thinking I need to read something co-currently with Team of Rivals .
I'm thinking The Battle of the Labyrinth, book 4 in the Percy Jackson series since there's a line of people waiting for it after me. I've become very obsessed with this series lately.
I'm reading Team of Rivals The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe *, which is (thankfully) a much shorter book.
* Touc ...
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... It was my first book of the year. A great way to start. I loved it.
mckait - I'm also still working my way through Team of Rivals . Tons of facts but still very readable.
rocketjk - Believe it or not, I'm also reading Bonk, I'm finding it very funny.
And if that's not enough I'm ...
it is hard to type when hands are in a thick coat of wax.
still reading Team of Rivals , and mulling over what to read with~
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Still reading Team of Rivals .. along with other reads. Just finished
Kindred by Octavia Butler. I will start a new read later today, but for now I have a few hundred books that I have to move around today........
... sped through The Ghost Map (in about a day and a half, which for me is pretty damn quick). I started reading Team of Rivals
I'm reading The Reader for my book club, listening to The Given Day and still tackling Team of Rivals .
... just before the Civil War is by David M. Potter called The Impending Crisis. While not quite so good as Goodwin's Team of Rivals , it still compares favorably in my mind. It really is yet another historical page-turner. It gives the complete political background for the war. You'll ...
... to hunt up the battle of Shiloh (I did put a marker there) because that's the next book on my list to read. Followed by Team of Rivals . I just wish I were a faster reader! I have collected many more than the nine I need for my 999 challenge and can't decide which one's to put off. I do ...
Team of Rivals for me...
... the knitting project that had issues with that brick doorstop book. Or I might read Team of Rivals
I'll be very interested to read what you two think about Team of Rivals . I think Goodwin is every bit as good a historical writer as Shelby Foote, and I can have no higher praise.
#78: I really don't think that Lincoln's mythology is just US--my father was from Italy, and knew about and ...
seekingflight - well done on deciding re. Team of Rivals . I am probably going to give it a go too - I have read glowing reviews on the book. She is obviously a literary phenomenon. A good writer is always worth reading.
This is a dangerous thread, really dangerous - it builds up the TBR pile ...
>77: Perhaps you're stressing yourself too much. Team of Rivals is still on my TBR pile, but I've read other Goodwin books and heard her speak a few times. She's wonderful at making history come alive.
The mythology of Lincoln is perhaps peculiarly American, but I think she can probably make ...
... the history of other countries. Lincoln has become a mythic figure whose appeal crosses national boundaries. I think that Team of Rivals might appeal to people looking for an outstanding read on Lincoln BUT really felt compelled to warn about the potential for a much narrower appeal, ...
#75: Team of Rivals is definitely worth the read, but Joyce (at least I think it was Joyce) is correct that the appeal of the book is primarily to Americans. Still, I'd like to see your input on it once you have had a chance to read it. I personally think it is a terrific book!
I will take ...
As an Aussie/Kiwi hybrid, I thought I'd let you know that I will also be adding Team of Rivals to Mount TBR. (Thanks Joyce and Orangeena for your comments and reviews.)
I wonder if there is a broader, cross-national appeal to the story of Lincoln's leadership and the way he was able ...
Still going at Team of Rivals while it's a good book.. It seems to be taking me forever and I tend to not read books that take me so long to finish. Perhaps I'm impatient? but I'm still chugging along. My dad's not much of a reader, but he did audio listen to this one and he recommended it.
Joyce and orangeena - thanks for the comments on the Team of Rivals . Truthfully Canadian history is the most boring history in the entire world, but that might be because I was brought up in England on Kings and Queens. Even New Zealand history is more engaging than Canadian.
alcott - I ...
... of the time were far more sympathetic to the South. These topics are of primary interest to us .
I consider Team of Rivals to be one of the best books I've ever read--but it's not a book that I would automatically recommend to someone from another country unless he/she were ...
... It was precious to me, but somehow..managed to disappear.
Kon d'Ark was another :)
right now I seem to be reading Team of Rivals , but may pick up something else as well. I am thinking Kindred.
Let me know what you think about Brooklyn, okay? I wish you well with it, too!
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kiwidoc -
I bow to joycepa's conclusions about Team of Rivals - well expressed and worth noting when contemplating reading.
Only one addition: Goodwin's thesis - that Lincoln was particularly brilliant to bring his closest political rivals into his circle of government and the doing so ...
... that's my complaint--I'm not techie myself! That's why I'd like to see the site more user-friendly.
#30:kiwidoc: No, Team of Rivals is not too full of names and dates and does not require an in-depth knowledge of US history. For the average American (who more or less knows that Lincoln ...
orangeena - I have also 'pawed' Team of Rivals a few times but never checked it out or bought it - perhaps because it looks so dense and I am not hugely interested in American Politics/history. Do you think I would like it or is it too full of names and dates and requiring a good basic US history ...
mckait @ #11....
yes, yes, yes do read Team of Rivals !
An amazing book - so many people, the complicated times and yet Goodwin tells a story in such a way it is hard to put it down. As you can probaly tell, she is one of my favorite writers; it has been wonderful to see this book brought back ...
... used, and added it to my pile. I don't usually read more than one book at a time, but I am considering picking up both
Team of Rivals or at least having a look at it, and I have to read Skeletons at the Feast to review it .. so maybe.....
Or maybe neither.. I will mull .....
... January
17. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
16. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
15. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
14. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
13. Time and Chance by Sharon ...
... career and went into detail about some of her public performances and the reviews she received - and Truman's reaction.
Team Of Rivals and Lincoln's Melancholy touched on Lincoln's children and their effect on him.
While not taking place during the white house years, TR's expedition in ...
Yes, Team of Rivals is an amazing book. Very highly recommend it. I had also enjoyed The worst hard time recently, and it brought an interesting personal perspective to when it discussed Roosevelt's response to the Dust Bowl.
I have an unrelated question: How do we count books that cover ...
... e,
First I want to welcome Freddie to the family!
Second, I hope you don't mind but I copied a few of your words about Team of Rivals to our US Presidents challenge so that members there would know about it.. It sounds sensational and I for one plan to read it when I get to the Pre-Civil W ...
... and others might want to know. I think I am definitely going to do this one when I get to the Lincoln timeframe.
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. There are so many books about Lincoln that you would think there isn't room for one more. Well, I can say that this one is superb. It ...
I've intended to read Team of Rivals since I first heard about it...now I know I must, and soon.
One of the things reading Team of Rivals did was interest me in getting Gideon Welles' diary. I've seen quotes from his diary before, in Donald's biography of Lincoln, but Goodwin quotes him much more extensively. One of the many things she does really well is illuminate the lesser-known ...
... single one of the Pulitzer winners I've read so far, from the very first one, has been excellent.
I have to finish up Team of Rivals review, too. I must be a reading masochist these days, because after finishing that one (754 pages), I immediately picked up the memoirs of a Confederate ...
WOOO HOOO! FREDDIE IS IN THE HOUSE!! Congratulations, Joyce.
BTW - Completely agree with you on Team of Rivals . Simply put, one of the best nonfiction books I have read in the past 5 years or so and one of the few that as soon as I finished it wanted to immediately read again.
chiming in on the posts regarding Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, I've wanted to read this book for awhile, ever since listening to talk about it on Meet the Press. At that time, Hillary Clinton was still in the running for US President and as I recall, Goodwin said she would not ...
Did you know that Team of Rivals is an influential book for our new president? I believe it contributed greatly to his goals in the makeup of his cabinet.
16. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. There are so many books about Lincoln that you would think there isn't room for one more. Well, I can say that this one is superb. It's not a biography of Lincoln, but instead focuses on the members of his contentious Cabinet, especially Salmon Ch ...
... of Jackson, van Buren, and Polk), John Quincy Adams and American Continental Empire, and John Quincy Adams.
#16 - team of rivals ; Lincoln's Melancholy
#26 - River of Doubt
#32 - Franklin and Winston
#33 - Truman
#42 - My Life
I've got Team of Rivals on my list as well, especially after seeing an interview of Doris Kearns Goodwin on PBS - it really does sound fascinating!
I read Team of Rivals about a year ago and found it fascinating. Not only is all the political intrigue presented but each of the people are brought to life so that you feel that you know them, not just politically but personally as well. Many of them, Lincoln particularly, are admirable while ...
Shannon and cameling, I am also about to start Team of Rivals . Like you said Shannon, I will also be reading it for a while. wow it's big!
>122: ShannonMDE, I have Team of Rivals on my pile at home, so I'll be very keen to hear how you're making out with this book.
#99 I often buy at Housing Works online... never disappointed.
Today~
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Time President Obama: The Path to The White House by Adi Ignatius
From Amazon
The Seance by John Harwood
Skeletons at the Fe ...
#99 I often buy at Housing Works online... never disappointed.
Today~
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Time President Obama: The Path to The White House by Adi Ignatius
From Amazon
The Seance by John Harwood
Skeletons at the Fe ...
I am reading (and probably will be reading for quite awhile) Team of Rivals . It's a fatter book than I usually read!
I haven't started it yet, but I just picked up Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I cannot wait to start it, but boy is it a big one!
... going and let you know if if gets any better. I also have Feb bookclub selection to read, The Reader and I just bought Team of Rivals which I cannot wait to start, so this will get read, but slowly.
... of FDR perhaps. And I suspect he was using Lincoln’s quiet behind-the–scenes tactics to gain advantage long before Team of Rivals was written.
... War so I'm looking forward to finding some new titles. Besides McPherson, I also have The Radical and the Republican and Team of Rivals on my TBR pile.
Isn't it so nice when you come back from a hard day to find books in the mail? Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin and Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner made their merry way to my door yesterday.
Team of Rivals is a great book! I read it a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. I will look for your input on it.
I have seen mixed reviews of Justinian's Flea so I have not attempted it yet. I can't wait to see what you think of it.
I've just bought Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln and Justinian's Flea by William Rosen which is about the first black plague and how it dessimated the Roman Empire. They're both weighty books and I've got a long trip planned ahead so these ...
... next door and it was warm...... ;-)
Used one of my gift cards and came away with:
Justinian's Flea by William Rosen
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Dewey by Vicki Myron (finally! I've been dying to get this book and last night it was 40% off for B&N members!)
Barefoot in Paris ...
My favorite fiction read was Handmaid's Tale, and I had 3 favorite nonfiction: Team of Rivals , Three Cups of Tea, and Post American World, by Fareed Zakaria.
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Excellent read.
... we should catch the bad guy tonight. I'm also in DC with Tried By War and I'm really mad at McClellan (and, having read Team of Rivals last year at this time, I know I'm going to be mad at him again soon--infuriating fool).
I started Tried By War a few days ago, and am enjoying it. It's a more dry read than Team of Rivals but, of course, covers much of the same ground. I find I'm just as angry at McClellan this year as as I was last December when I read Rivals. I want to read Sweetsmoke next.
The Real Lincoln
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Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
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Team of Rivals
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Lincoln's Melancholy
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The Case of Abraham Lincoln
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infiniteletters in Site talk : Presidential Library (Nov 24, 2008, 2:43pm)
... eclectic. I just finished Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, a wonderful book. The language just shimmers. I've started Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, which is a great study of Lincoln as a political strategist. I read just about anything by Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, or Philip Ro ...
We know he's read (or is reading) Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals , as well as two books about FDR: Jonathan Alter's The Defining Moment and Jean Edward Smith's FDR. He's read the Harry Potter books to his daughters.
I don't know exactly who LT would have to contact ...
... I've been underwhelmed by the last 2 of his I've read. I think we're going through a cycle of rediscovery of Lincoln ...Team of Rivals etc. He was an incredible leader. As I mentioned above I'll pick it up when it hits the remainder pile. Regards, A
I completely agree with Julie about Nadine Gordimer's The Lying Days.
Have you read Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals ? Barack Obama and I would probably both put it on a list of our favorite nonfiction books.
I also recommend a book called Mansfield Park by a little known author ...
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1) Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume 1.13.09
2) Team of Rivals
3) Dewey the Small Town Library Cat who Touched the World 5.25.09
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Since I had a whole category of Beverly Cleary in 2008, I think I'd like to read Gi ...
... trade paberback duo book, I bought it because my old copies of these 2 novel are falling apart.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln --Hubby chose this to go in the Civil War collection I'm creating for us to read when he retires next year.
Grant, ...
Okay, two more books came today:
The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran from Harper Collins' 'Read it Forward' program
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin via an LT BookMooch angel who should have just told me no! I didn't realize just how big and heavy that book is.
... Lee his intelligence arm!
almost forgot--I have the book but haven't read it but bought it because of the rave reviews--Team of Rivals about Lincoln's cabinet. there's lots of coverage of that topic--again, Foote is great in this as he is in every aspect--but I'm curious to see how goodwin ...
... Moveable Feast considered nonfiction? If so, that's another favorite, as is Calvin Trillins' Alice Let's Eat. Also Team of Rivals , Devil in the White City, and Caesar, life of a Colossus, all read in the last couple of years. Oh, and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, another from my ...
... to Organize your Life by Judith Kolberg and Floor Sample - A creative Memoir byJulia Cameron. I've also started Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, on the recommendation of Matt Galloway from CBC Radio.
The best of those I've read since 2005:
And the Band Played On
Lindbergh
Team of Rivals
Wild Swans
Dead Man Walking
Things We Couldn't Say
Under the Banner of Heaven
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Children's Blizzard
Gift ...
... by Douglas Hofstadter
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris
Enduring Grace, by Carol Flinders
Team of Rivals , by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich
I too enjoyed Team of Rivals but my favorite history book this year was Rum: A social and sociable history of the real spirit of 1776 by Ian Willliams. Entertaining as well as edifying.
... a British author, provides insight to Lincoln's spiritual and ethical life. Furthermore, I plan to be be reading Team of Rivals .
... and the reader should be wise enough to know all facts about the past are not attainable and must be intuited. I enjoyed Team of Rivals but the lack of criticism diminishes the academic credibility. I have always considered Bush an idiot but I would admit he is not a perfect idiot. He gets ...
I'm in New York with William Seward awaiting news of the 1860 Republican party presidential nomination in Team of Rivals .
I am being very irresponsible and am reading multiple books: on my Kindle:Merle's Door, and Team of Rivals , and in RL: Invader, The Annotated Alice in Wonderland, The Annotated Wizard of Oz, Clapton, The Color of Magic, American Pie Slices of Life and Pie from America's Back Roads ...
Team of Rivals is my top read so far this year. Most entertaining (ie, good airplane books) have been Glass Castle and Three Cups of Tea. Most interesting literary work has been Disgrace. I have not had an overall fav fiction read yet, alas, so I'll be checking out other people's favs ...
... know there was a diagnosis for me. I'm currently reading King Solomon's Mines, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, Team of Rivals , The collected Works of Robert Burns, My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead and I'm sure there are a few more laying around.
... this book to those who liked Cod: The Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky.
I read Team of Rivals earlier this year and thought it was terrific -- it was recommended to me by the science department chair at the high school where I teach. After reading it ...
#170 Hi, doc ~ Devil in the White City is brilliant, isn't it!?! It tied with Team of Rivals as my favorite nonfiction (and maybe of any books, including fiction) in 2007. It really is one of my all-time favorite nonfictions, and this from someone who doesn't usually read true crime books. ...
... a book mid-trip. My next book will probably (but not certainly) be one of the following sizable books:
1) Team of Rivals Nicholas Nickleby
3) Don Quixote
4) Vanity Fair
Stay tuned for details.
... time around wasn't all that great. I had a hard time finishing this one only because I was bored by the story.
23. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin - Wow! Talk about a fantastic book. I decided I'd had enough mindless reading and picked up a juicy non-fiction. I definitely made ...
1. Team of Rivals
2. Armed Madhouse
3. Poisoner of Ptah
Team of Rivals was a great book (Pulitzer Prize winner) on Abraham Lincoln and his war cabinet.
Armed Madhouse was a great but depressing book on modern American politics.
Poisoner of Ptah was a good mystery set in ...
... possibilities are:
* The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
* Don Quixote
* Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
* Tess of the d'Urbervilles
#6 Team of Rivals was my top non-fiction read of 2007.
Currently reading Enrique's Journey about the children who travel through South America and Mexico to (hopefully) reach their parents in the U.S.
Team of Rivals sounds like something that will make a lovely gift for my parents (and perhaps myself), come the holidays. :)
I finally finished the Vali Nasr book and am browsing through Atheism : A Reader, an anthology compiled by S. T. Joshi, whose touchstone doesn't work for some ...
I just finished Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin and I recommend it to the world. If you have any interest in Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War you should read this book. It won the Pulitzer Prize and well deserved it in my opinion.
... About the only one I know of in modern US history who comes close to Lincoln in political genius was FDR.
I haven't read Team of Rivals yet, but intend to get the book sometime. I'm interested in reading about Lincoln's manipulation of Chase, in particular, in more detail.
If you're ...
#187-Whisper1 I just finished Team of Rivals and it was wonderful. I can't say enough good things about it. I thought I knew a little about Lincoln and the Civil War but the political side of things was a whole new realm.
I unreservedly recommend it.
I just finished Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I learned a lot about Abraham Lincoln and the members of his cabinet and just how shrewd a politician Lincoln actually was -- and how great a man. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
I just started Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, a history of Lincoln's War Cabinet. So far it is very good.
I second Devil in the White City. What a brilliant book!
I also loved Team of Rivals : the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln and Caesar, Life of a Colossus by Goldsworthy. Oh, and also The Ghost Map, the Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic and how it changed the way we think about ...
... life as a circuit lawyer, his home life, and his decision to join the Republican Party. It reminded me somewhat of Team of Rivals , except that it was much shorter.
#108 Hi, Joycepa ~ I loved Team of Rivals . It was fascinating to watch the machinations of all those Big Egos and the brilliant way Lincoln dealt with it, while dealing with the horrific bloodshed of the Civil War and the egotistic generals and their mistakes, as well as difficult family ...
#105 storeetellr: Oh wow, one on Lincoln I had no idea about! Team of Rivals is on that dreary, ever-growing list of books I have to buy, but I've now added this one.
How did you like Team of Rivals ? Anyone who reads in the Civil War knows about Lincoln's cabinet and the rivalry there ...
... a slimmish volume ~ only 226 pages ~ but it's quite substantive, I think, and was written in a way that is reminiscent of Team of Rivals (which was, of course, much longer). It encompasses the period from March through early December 1856, though it brings in events and people from the past ...
... forgiving man, but apparently Fremont earned even more contempt from him than did McClellan.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, in Team of Rivals also paints an uncomplimentary picture of Fremont (see especially pages 388-396). She cites reports from Missouri of "recklessness in expenditures," "an ...
... reviews that reflect your thoughts and did not go back for it.
The two AL books that I will go back and read are Team of Rivals and Donald's Lincoln. I loved them both.
Dang, I should have posted sooner. It is great bouncing thoughts/ideas and reccomendations off of one another. T ...
... Rain , and it is next on my TBR pile.
Two books from BookMooch: Team of Rivals , which is on Barack Obama's shortlist, and One Hundred Years of Solitude, which is a 1001 book and the excerpt that I read sounded really magical.
One ...
I thought Team of Rivals was excellent. I kept thinking that here was Lincoln with little formal education and he showed greater ability and knowledge than his cabinet full of college degrees. I particularly liked his humbling of Salmon Chase. I don't think that Chase ever really did realize ...
Wasn't Team of Rivals wonderful! It was one of my top 10 books of last year.
Have just finished Team of Rivals which was excellent. I gained so much respect for Lincoln. Also just finished The Gullah People and their African Heritage and Jesus: Uncovering the Life, which were both good. I'd recommend the Gullah book if you'll be visiting Charleston, Savannah, or ...
... Goodwin. She also wrote an excellent book about President Lincoln and his cabinet that has received acclaim called Team of Rivals .
A very recent biography of FDR that has received generally excellent reviews is FDR by Jean Edward Smith.
I would start with No Ordinary Time, ...
... fiction is best for audio (for me at least), but I listened to three nonfictions last year that were wonderful on audio: Team of Rivals , Devil in the White City, and The Moveable Feast. All three were amazingly good as audios. One reason these three worked so well is, perhaps, because ...
I just got back from vacation, so I was able to finish my three ongoing reads. Hurrah!
6. *Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Excellent, excellent. I have so much respect for Lincoln after reading this book. He was not just a good man who rose to the occasion during ...
... Reader by Nicholas Basbanes (whose books I love!), What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pillar of Fire and At Canaan's Edge both by Taylor Branch, Orbit by John J. Nance, Churchill and America by Mar ...
...
If you read non-fiction as well as fiction, I'd recommend:
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and Relin
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
... and include a variety of writers from contemporaries to present on Lincoln. He is a hero of mine and the recent book Team of Rivals emphasized his remarkable abilities.
... Jest by David Foster Wallace. (maybe it was because the books were so darn heavy??? probably not since I made it through Team of Rivals by Goodwin and Churchill by Roy Jenkins and they were phone book heavy)
Yes, since I actually got a paycheck this week (and believe me, where I work, that's noteworthy in itself). Team of Rivals used -book shopping recently.
... a point where I can conveniently duck out and call it "finished".
For my next book, I may read my latest purchase (Team of Rivals
I bought Team of Rivals
... bar none, and I love reading about him, warts and all. :)
Besides Honor's Voice (which I haven't read yet) and Team of Rivals (which I have), what are the best new books on Lincoln that you've discovered lately? Do you also enjoy reading novels about him? (I'm remembering how much ...
#19 lolol
I can't think of the American Civil War without thinking of Lincoln, and my favorite books about him are Team of Rivals , Lincoln, a novel by Vidal, and Sandberg's Lincoln, which may be outdated but which was the first book on Lincoln I read, at the urging of my Grandmother, ...
... one or two nonfiction books. (I read 9 out of 112.)
Of those 9, three are on my list of desert-island favorites: Team of Rivals , A Moveable Feast, and Devil in the White City. A couple of other really good ones which came *that* close to being on that list are Stiff, Caesar, Li ...
... Fowl series), and Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files series). The Book Thief was also a book I read because of LT, as was Team of Rivals , Devil in the White City, The Road, and Thirteenth Tale. And I'm reading Jane Eyre for the first time because 99.9% of LTers have loved that novel. ...
Team of Rivals was really good. I also agree with those River of Doubt fans, though I think I read it in 2006. I liked it so much that I assigned it to my AP U.S. history class as part of their summer reading. I also liked Blood and Thunder and Mayflower. An interesting book that was ...
... a great time in Seattle, Washington with Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie, before jetting off to Washington, DC with Team of Rivals , and then jetting again to a South Seas island to spend a little time with Pop Eye in Mister Pip.
#20 Yes, I agree ~ Team of Rivals is one of my top 5 nonfiction books of 2007.
Still listening to and loving Jane Eyre and have also started Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay on the recommendation of a number of LTers and am so far really enjoying it.
... get much reading in the next few days because I'm pretty much going to be at home. That will allow me to finish, finally, Team of Rivals , which I've loved but it's taken me a long time to complete.
#5 glad to hear you're liking Back Roads because I've had one on my shelf for about the ...
I forgot to post mine: Team of Rivals
Still reading Team of Rivals (half through) and Blood Done Sign My Name (100 pages left), both of which I hope to finish before Jan. 1. They're excellent, but the holidays are putting a serious crimp in my reading.
I've invited a young Abe Lincoln (Team of Rivals ) from a time before he married Mary Todd (I don't believe in encouraging unfaithfulness in spouses). I think Abe'll fit in just fine with the likes of us, he really enjoyed being around people, telling jokes and funny stories, and I just love what ...
... in the past 30 years, and Pride and Prejudice.
For non-fiction, I read two this year that are tied for best ever: Team of Rivals and Devil in the White City.
Wait ~ what? I'm only supposed to pick one? Ooops, my bad. ;)
no particular order:
Enduring Love
Infinite Jest
Team of Rivals
In Search of Memory
Breaking the Spell
hated:
The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable
... Mention: Kafka on the Shore
Non-Fiction
The Lemon Tree
A Man Without A Country
Dead Man Walking
Team of Rivals (which I haven't actually finished yet)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Honorable Mention: AIDS in America (touchstone not working)
...
... I enjoyed reading what Doris Kearns Goodwin had to say about whether of not she would classify Lincoln as 'depressed' in Team of Rivals , likely in response to Joshua Wolf Shenk's Lincoln's Meloncholy. She didn't agree with Shenk, but wasn't catty about it.
Stephen Ambrose was a bit more ...
... and then, if I read something amazingly wonderful in the next 3 weeks, will edit the list(s) accordingly:
Non-Fiction
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Caesar, Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
...
I'm in Washington, DC with Team of Rivals just prior to the siege on Ft. Sumpter in 1861; at Santa Anita Racetrack with Dear Miss Breed with the Japanese internees in 1941; and in Oxford, North Carolina in the 1970s with Blood Done Sign My Name. All quite interesting and often hard to leave ...
... earlier this year. Fascinating guy.
I'm pounding through Religions Of Rome right now. Slow going, but well worth it. Team of Rivals was a lot of fun, and if you want a really good book on an overlooked period, catch Crucible Of War, by Fred Anderson. It's about the 7 Years War (Frenc ...
... Moved on to Haiti in Behind the Mountains, which is lovely, but will be a very quick read. Also, in St. Louis with Team of Rivals getting the background on Lincoln's Republican rivals. My only regret is the book's so heavy I can't carry it around and read it more frequently. Instead I ...
I'm in Springfield, Illinois awaiting the results of the Republican Convention of 1860 for Team of Rivals . Fascinating stuff.
Finished Kira-Kira and Lunch at the Piccadilly yesterday. Will begin Team of Rivals and A Short History of Tractors in the Ukranian this evening.
Finally finished with Team of Rivals and will be starting Stiff
I've not been able to read much lately, so I only now just finished Team of Rivals today. What a fascinating tale! Some of the sidebar personalities are just as interesting as Lincoln, in some regards. Am still somewhere in the middle of Omnivore's Dilemma and am now reading about the ...
... Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Sounds of the River
Life and Death in Shanghai
Middlesex
Thirteen Moons
Team of Rivals
... few brilliant non-fiction books I read recently are:
Devil in the White City by Larson
A Moveable Feast by Hemingway
Team of Rivals by Goodwin
Caesar, Life of a Colossus by Goldsworthy
A couple of others that I enjoyed were:
Stiff by Roach
Justinian's Flea by Rosen
I'm now ...
... Word on the Street- Toronto's one day street book fair and got
We are on Our Own by Miriam Katin -graphic novel
Team of Rivals The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin- history book that I have had on my to be bought list for some time!
A Partisan's Memoir ...
Currently about 9 chapters into Team of Rivals and finishing Jill Lepore's The name of war, both of which are fascinating - the latter is actually about King Phillip's War, in New England, about a hundred years before Declaration of Independence. Talks about how the war, captivity, and ...
So.. even though I'm still only 11 discs into Team of Rivals (just leading up to the Republican nomination, and still wildly enjoying it) my audible credits were available again, so I've got Under the Banner of Heaven, Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers and The Know-It-All.
Whil ...
Team of Rivals is another Goodwin masterpiece. But it's only one of several books I'm either reading or listening to right now, so I do it in small bits. I'm about 250 pages in, and loving it. I'm listing to Mayflower in the car, and it's fascinating to at one moment be there at the beginning ...
#42 bfertig ~ As you progress with your reading of Team of Rivals , the differences between Chase and Seward will become blazingly apparent.
I loved loved loved that book! It's one of the few I've read in my life to which I would give a 10-star rating.
... religion, expectations of captivity etc. between the Algonquin and the English colonists.
Also, stilll working on Team of Rivals , which I'm also liking a bunch. I'm only about 5 chapters in so far, but for some reason, I'm having a really hard time distinguishing between the careers ...
... Peddler
25. Rules for Old Men Waiting
26. Water for Elephants
27. The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction
28. Team of Rivals
29. Pushing Yourself to Power
30. Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
31. Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion and Excess at San Francisco ...
#57 ~ Oh, I listened to the audiobook Team of Rivals and absolutely loved it.
... one of those books that I felt just sorta ended rather abruptly. I've finally gotten a hold of an unabridged recording of Team of Rivals (36 CDs!) and am already very much enjoying it.
... brilliant! The reader was fantastic. It is the best thing I've read this year and probably the best of the year, although Team of Rivals was also excellent. Well, one is a novel and one is non-fiction, so each can be best in their respective groups, I guess. Anyway, if you haven't read The R ...
While reading Team of Rivals my own copy, I got these two from the public library: Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A. D. 800 by Jeff Sypeck and The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880-1918 by Patricia O' Toole.
The Charl ...
Currently, I am nearly finished w/ Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals. As with those others who have mentioned it, this is an excellent book. Very well written and not a difficult book to read. Lincoln certainly was a brilliant politician. I have enjoyed other of Goodwin's books, such of N ...
I'm curled up with A Team of Rivals these days, which I'm enjoying greatly. While I've read other biographies of Lincoln (cf Malice Towards None), this one focuses specifically on his political career and his rivals (as the title says!), and so it provides a different perspective on the ...
I got Team of Rivals from the L.A. Central Public Library. There were something like 32 discs, so they came in Parts I and II. It took awhile to finish, but it is so far my top favorite book of 2007.
Personally, I wouldn't bother with an abridged version of a book, whether audio or printed. ...
... listening pleasure?
For example, I am looking for several books in no particular order:
Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals ,
Chesapeake, or really anything by Michener,
Benjamin Franklin (specifically by Walter Isaacson,
The Swamp by Michael Grunwald
The C ...
These are books I finished from April 7-30:
29. Team of Rivals by Goodwin (5 stars) Unbelievably good history of the cabinet put together by Abraham Lincoln and does truly show why he is considered a political genius and the reason we are the United States today and not part of the Confederacy. ...
... the last in the list and decide tomorrow, the very last day of the quarter. So, the temporary list looks like this:
1. A Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Goodwin (1)
2. Caesar, Life of a Colossus by Goldsworthy (2)
3. The Man Who Cast Two Shadows by O'Connell ...
I'm definitely counting audiobooks. So far this year I've "read" three on audio: Team of Rivals, the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, Artemis Fowl, and Twilight. All were excellent, all unabridged, and, imho, none were lacking for having been listened to rather than read.
... of "meatier" books so far this year ~ a couple biographies of Julius Caesar, Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr, and Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. OK, enough excuses! :) Mt. TBR calls ~ next up, I think, are a couple of romances, which I will probably finish before the end of ...
... College Football's Most Elusive Prize
5. Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania
6. Team of Rivals
7. Inside the Jihad: My Life With Al Qaeda: A Spy's Story
8. The Devil's Highway: A True Story
9. Confederates in the Attic
10. A Walk in the Woods ...
... continue. I do not give up on a book, I simply continue to read them at zero speed ...
Current biographies, interrupted: A team of rivals , Jung.
... Brilliant novel depicting life in Nazi Germany. Narrator is Death. Only missed a 5-star review by a hairsbreadth.
13. Team of Rivals by Goodwin (5 stars) Unbelievably good history of the cabinet put together by Abraham Lincoln and does truly show why he is considered a political genius and ...
Had an okay first quarter; four books out of 25 with a +4 star rating (out of 5 stars):
A Team of Rivals by Goodwin (5 stars)
It Happened One Autumn by Kleypas (5 stars)
The Book Thief by Zusak (4-1/2 stars)
A Spot of Bother by Haddon (4-1/2 stars)
plus quite a few 4 starred books.
... : Suite Francaise (c) 08-Feb-2007 F
09. Kirstin Allio : Garner (c) 17-Feb-2007 F
10. Doris K. Goodwin : Team of Rivals (c) 21-Feb-2007 NF
11. Clorinda Matto de Turner : Torn from the Nest (c) 25-Feb-2007 F
12. Alistair Horne : Seven Ages of Paris (c) 02-Mar-2007 N ...
I recently finished listening to Team of Rivals (finally!), which was absolutely spellbinding (I cried pretty much through the last half of the last CD), and then listened to something a bit lighter ~ Artemis Fowl, which started out slow but which eventually I couldn't turn off.
Now am ...
My only book for February was War and Peace but it may be my favorite book for the year. I agree with zechristof on Team of Rivals , it was excellent. All of Lincoln's rivals had college degrees compared to his one year in a schoolhouse. He showed more ability than all of them and completely ...
Finally finished Team of Rivals yesterday. Cried through the last bit as if Lincoln had been assassinated only last week. It was exceptionally good, I thought, bringing together things that have already been written about him and his presidency and the Civil War into one coherent whole and ...
For me, it was Team of Rivals . a tour de force narrative describing Abraham Lincoln's uncanny political genius. Doris Kearns Goodwin is a terrific writer of biography and historical narrative. I enjoyed Suite Francaise also, but thought it a bit hopeless in its outlook. I recommend it for the ...
... Have Wa by Robert Whiting a long time ago, which is a fun look into Japanese baseball. Also, Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin , an autobiographical work, is a wonderful look at the role the Brooklyn Dodgers played in the life of a young girl.
Well, I'm almost finished with Team of Rivals , which, if you'll believe it, was what I was listening to at the start of this thread back in October! It's taken me awhile, but I'm so glad I stuck with it. It's one of the best books I've ever read, including fiction! Detailed without getting ...
... when I've just finished a truly great book that will be difficult if not impossible to match.
Also still listening to Team of Rivals , another excellent book which I had been listening to only during my commute when I wanted to knit but which is getting so good now (I'm about 2/3 of the way ...
It is pretty interesting reading the postings to this
Storeetllr in Audiobooks : Best and Worst of 2006 (Dec 31, 2006, 3:47pm)... to a few great audiobooks this year. My favorites (that I can recall) were Pride and Prejudice, Jonathan Strange, and Team of Rivals . So far.
Last year's favorites were The Curious Incident, The Egyptologist, and Darkly Dreaming Dexter.
... of his LBJ books: The Path to Power, Means of Ascent and Master of the Senate.
And Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals .
I may not come up for air for a fortnight.
... of different kinds of books so I can pick and choose, depending on how I feel and what I'm doing. For instance, I've got Team of Rivals , Angel's Fall by Nora Roberts, The Iliad, When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro, Jonathan Strange, The Historian, and Pride and Prejudice, among ...
I've got Part 1 of Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin loaded on my iPod and am enjoying it very much!
... some of Lindsay Davis's Falco mysteries, and Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom. Oh, and right now I'm listening to Team of Rivals and loving it too!
I noted today that both Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson and Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin have been nominated for a Quill Book Award in the History/Current Events/Politics category. Be sure to vote for your favorite by September 30. The ...
... Graham
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Jericho Sanction by Oliver North
Listening To:
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson
I have no idea why I've got so many different ones going right now. I am usually ...
I'm currently reading Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. It's a good read. She gives great background on all of Lincoln's rivals as well as Lincoln. I found this book in an airport bookstore and started reading it while waiting for the plane. I'm only about halfway through, since I ...
I usually have many books going at once too. ;) I'm currently reading Beyond the Sacred Page by Jack Cavanaugh, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte, and The Shunning by Beverly Lewis.
Just wondering if anyone else has put a ...
I'm working on Team of Rivals and I have a few other books in my collection that I have not been able to start yet. :D I completely enjoy studying and reading about Presidents and the different ideas and methods they had. Very interesting. :)
I posted before that I am reading Beyond the Sacred Page, but I am also working on The Club Dumas and Team of Rivals ...if I ever get back to them! :) I think my next read will be Captain Alatriste and The Teahouse of the August Moon by Vern Sneider. I just happened upon it at the ...
Oh boy, just one?! Let's see, I recently finished Doris Kearns Goodwin's latest, Team of Rivals , and enjoyed it quite well. The Faragher suggestion sounds like a good one too, I'll have to hunt that up.
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