
''Team of Rivals" is also an America ''coming-of-age" saga. Lincoln, Seward, Chase et al. are sketched as being part of a ''restless generation," born when Founding Fathers occupied the White House and the Louisiana Purchase netted nearly 530 million new acres to be explored. The Western Expansion motto of this burgeoning generation, in fact, was cleverly captured in two lines of Stephen Vincent Benet's verse: ''The stream uncrossed, the promise still untried / The metal sleeping in the mountainside." None of the protagonists in ''Team of Rivals" hailed from the Deep South or Great Plains. _______________________________ From a review by Douglas Brinkley, 2005
I was stunned to see this book at the top of the American History best-selling list at amazon.
ReplyDeleteIt pretty much is how at feels over at Melba these days.
Is it just me, or does that cover "read" as Nazi propaganda?
ReplyDeleteI think ol' Glenn is just trying to "stir us up," but yes there is an oddly fascist tone to the cover. Yet, woe be it to anyone to accuse these right-wing pundits of such.
ReplyDeleteAgain, the amazing part is how much creedence mainstream media gives these guys.