Lincoln on NPR

[blue_zouave]

I heard an interview with the author of the new book about Lincoln and his cabinet on NPR last night. It sounded interesting, like something ELSE to add to my reading list!

There are several archived Civil War related programs on the NPR website at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4994044

Zou

[unionblue]

Zou,

Thanks for the link above, found the other articles there very interesting. The book looks like one I will have to buy also.

Thanks again,
Unionblue

[samgrant]

Haven't read it yet, but it's in my pile of books.

I ordered it for 2 reasons, 1) Doris K. Goodwin is a great writer, despite "the recent unpleasantness". 2) I have been intrigued by this particular subject having been first informed about it, incidentally, by my reading of Benjamin P. Thomas' Abraham Lincoln.

Oddly enough, I became most interested in this very subject (Lincoln's choice of disparate cabinet members and how he managed to deal with them thru those trying times) by having read 2 "Historical Fiction" books wherein both used this very subject as a major plot point (Lincoln by Gore Vidal, and Freedom by William Safire), so as I learned that Doris was working on a "Lincoln book", I was immensely pleased that it turned out to be about this very interesting subtext of the history of Lincoln and the war.

[samgrant]

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