----- Original Message ----- From: "News Wire" <listservice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:54 AM Subject: Accessible World Presents A World View of History, December 16, 2009 News Wire 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. If you are a first-time user of the Talking Communities online conferencing software, there is a small, safe software program that you need to download and then run. A link to the software is available on every entry screen to the Accessible World rooms. All online interactive programs require no password, are free of charge, and open to anyone worldwide having an Internet connection, a computer, speakers, and a sound card. Those with microphones can interact audibly with the presenters and others in the virtual audience. To speak to us, hold down the control key and let up to listen. If no microphone is available, you may text chat with the attendees. 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