« Taken At The Flood, Part 3 | Main | Petersburg Campaign
Project Update »  Doris Kearns Goodwin - Team of Rivals: The
Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln  Being a history major and
frequenting various history related websites, one cannot help
but be inundated by narrative based pop histories, usually to my
disdain. In fact, this book, controversial in the blogosphere if
not on Amazon, only arrived at my house because I proved too
lazy to preempt the Book Club from sending it as the Editor's
Choice.  Even disregarding that the "Editor's Choice" stamp is
usually a tell tale sign of this genre of history, I had already
read a number of things about this book, mostly from Dimitri
Rotov's site. At the same time, I decided to start reading it
because I was not terribly familiar with Bates or Chase. Yes,
there are a number of flaws with the book. But yes, this book
does serve a purpose.  When I read the description of the book
months ago, I, like many others, wondered why a book about
Lincoln's Cabinet would focus