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From the comments on the back cover by some of the country's most prominent critics, it doesn't seem as though I've read the same book. Just because the concept is unarguably brilliant, the subject important and the author a celebrity scholar doesn'tFrom the comments on the back cover by some of the country's most prominent critics, it doesn't seem as though I've read the same book. Just because the concept is unarguably brilliant, the subject important and the author a celebrity scholar doesn't mean that the result is automatically great. The execution of this book is overrated. The enormously complicated cast of players required more careful and consistent editing to keep them all straight, their characters well-defined, and their relationships clear. And while the subject is Lincoln, his cabinet and their families and not the Civil War per se, the complexity of the social and economic issues leading up to devastating effects of the war are not handled with incite so that the full drama and power of Lincoln's achievement does not come across. Finally, Kearns Goodwin does not know how to use visuals to good effect: she has the annoying habit of referring in detail to images that she then does not show at all, and using others with no comment in the text. Even as one learns, one is frustrated by what one doesn't learn. This book does not come close to Applegate's phenomenal biography of Henry Ward Beecher, or Edel's of Henry James....more
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