Book News, PublicNet: 6 May, 2011

By Doris Kearns.

The book is a remarkable study in leadership.

It describes how in May 1880 William H Seward, Salmon P Chase, Edward Bates and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.

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