Lincoln
“I suppose it’s time to go but I would rather stay” President Abraham Lincoln’s last words to his Cabinet, April 14, 1865 (quote from both the film Lincoln and “Team of Rivals”) Recently I finished the book “Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin, which won several historical awards and is the best book about Abraham Lincoln I have read. “Team of Rivals” examines Lincoln’s political life, as well as that of his cabinet and generals in the Civil War, many of whom were rivals for the Republican nomination in 1860. At a time when in the U.S. we have a president who insults anyone who disagrees with him on Twitter, and appreciates the political support he receives from white supremacy groups, I savored spending time reading about the first Republican president whose kindly nature and incredible political savviness kept the United States together and led to the end of slavery. The 754 page book is too long to fully adapt into a film (though it would be a fascinating miniser