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A review by smart_as_paint
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.0
My Favorite parts are Walt Whitman's thirsty descriptions of the Christ-like Lincoln. My man was down bad.
"If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with," Walt Whitman reflected "it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it." (Goodwin 374)
"If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with," Walt Whitman reflected "it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it." (Goodwin 374)