“Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” is a book whose main story centrals on the lives of President Abraham Lincoln and the three men who would be apart of his cabinet: William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Edward Bates. In 1860, all four men would be leading candidates to gain the Republican nomination. However, at the time Lincoln seemed like the most unlikely person to win the nomination and the other three men held a grudge at first because they thought to be better than Lincoln was, the 1860 Republican convention would be the beginning of an era.
In this book, we get to see the lives of all four men from birth until Lincoln’s death. It is a biography of four lives. We get to see how each man grows up and what each man grows up to do. We see what the contemporaries think of the four men and see how the world thinks about the four men. We see how Seward, Chase, and Bates first judge Lincoln but eventually come around to love Lincoln for the kind of......
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