Boss Lincoln – The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln - Matthew Pinsker

We know Abraham Lincoln as the eloquent, compassionate leader of a nation torn by civil war. But he had another, less visible side, central to his character and leadership: he was a master of party politics. His decades of experience as a party leader proved invaluable to him as president and commander in chief during the Civil War. Matthew Pinsker’s groundbreaking history draws on Lincoln’s private correspondence to realize a flesh-and-blood character in Boss Lincoln. Behind closed doors he... Zobrazit více