''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
That's an excellent book. Don't lend it out. It'll never come back.
ReplyDeleteI don't plan to let the book out of my sight, rick. Any thoughts on Stephen Oates' The Man and the Artist?
ReplyDeleteOates' book is what I would call a "dramatized" biography. In my opinion you can't go wrong with Joel Williamson's "William Faulkner and Southern History."
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I responded to your email of earlier in the week but fear something went awry.
Thanks for the reference, rick.
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