[bookshare-discuss] Fw: Accessible World Presents A World View of History, December 16, 2009
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Subject: Accessible World Presents A World View of History, December 16,
2009
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Come Join us on Wednesday, December 16th at 6:00 P.M. PST (9:00 EST)
to review Part Two of â?oA Team OF Rivals: the Political Genius of
Abraham Lincoln: by Doris Kearns Goodwin (DB61162). We will listen to
another interview with the author focusing on Part Two of her book. If
you wish to listen to the November interview with the author and
discussion, go to the Dropbox on Accessible World.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2380806/Edited_WVH11-18-2009.mp3
Part Two begins on the eve of the Presidential INAUGURATION WITH THE
Nation sliding into civil war. Abraham Lincoln realizing he needs the
knowledge and skills of the Republican Party Leaders he has
politically outwitted and humiliated, shrewdly manipulates them into
joining his cabinet by soothing their egos, exploiting their need for
even second-place positions of power, and by allowing them to believe
they will govern through him as a puppet-a misunderstanding he then
gently but firmly corrects. Lincoln spent much of his time and
reputation keeping them in the Cabinet often accepting blame for their
mistakes to gain their loyalty. While the members of the Cabinet
fought and even shouted among themselves, Lincoln had to replace only
two, the ever disloyal but highly competent Salmon P. Chase and the
corrupt Pennsylvania political boss, Simon Cameron. Lincoln was
rewarded by effective Departments of State, Treasury, Navy and War so
vital to the North while he desperately sought to deal with
incompetent generals, issues of Habeas Corpus and emancipation, as
well as the death of his son Willie and the illness of Mary Lincoln.
Based on the letters and diaries of the Rivals and their wives and
daughters, Goodwin vividly describes the social scene of wartime
Washington led by Kate Chase, Salmon Chase's very attractive daughter,
Seward's daughter in law, Ana and Mary Lincoln in her better days. The
National Capital was only a few miles from the Southern Armies and in
constant danger having e been in fact been cut off from the rest of
the nation when southern sympathizers cut the telegraph and rail
lines.
At the end, after Lincoln's assassination, Doris Goodwin ties up the
loose ends and tells us what happened to all the characters we have
come to know if not always love.
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. DB61162
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Read by Robert Sams. Reading time 38 hours 13
minutes.
NLS Download
https://nlsbard.loc.gov/cgi-bin/nlsbardprod/downloadbook.cgi?book=26116
Also available: Bookshare.org, excellent quality.
RFB&D HM597
Our book for January 20th 2010 is: Churchill, Hitler, and "The
Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the
World. DB66888
Buchanan, Patrick J. Read by Ted Stoddard. Reading time 15 hours 47
minutes.
NLS Download
https://nlsbard.loc.gov/cgi-bin/nlsbardprod/downloadbook.cgi?book=88866
The group will meet at the same time the third Wednesday of every
month and will be facilitated by Don Queen, Email: queens@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, December 16th. 2009
Time: 6:00 PM PST, 7:00 PM MST, 8:00 PM CST, 9:00 PM EST
and elsewhere in the world Thursday 2:00 GMT.
Approximately 20 minutes prior to the event start time; go to A World
View of History at:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsf0c95f474b43
Or, alternatively,
Select A World View of History Room at:
http://www.accessibleworld.org
Enter your first and last names on the sign-in screen.
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