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“This, then, is a story of Lincoln’s political genius revealed through his extraordinary array of personal qualities that enabled him to form friendships with…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham

“One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“It soon became clear, however, that Abraham Lincoln would emerge the undisputed captain of this most unusual cabinet, truly a team of rivals. The…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but…

— Henry Louis Gates

“As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with hope in…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth.…

— Eric Foner

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

— Barack Obama

I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a…

— Henry Villard

One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is…

— James Russell Lowell

“Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin