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Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

December 29, 2020 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

This book was a birthday gift from my sister last year and I loved it. I previously read Team of Rivals which deserves every word of praise it garners so I was excited to read another book by DKG. This book highlights four different American presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson. DKG points out that she is only focusing on LBJ’s civil rights policies, and avoiding his handling of the Vietnam War. I also learned that DKG was an intern for […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Doris Kearns Goodwin, LBJ, Leadership, Lincoln, presidents, Roosevelt

thewheelbarrow's CBR12 Review No:30 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Doris Kearns Goodwin, LBJ, Leadership, Lincoln, presidents, Roosevelt ·
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Was It Really Friendship?

Mrs. Lincoln & Mrs. Keckley: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave by Jennifer Fleischner

Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley

July 22, 2020 by Ale Leave a Comment

  While noodling on the internet one day, I came across an article about Mary Lincoln’s personal dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley. A former slave from Maryland who’d bought her own freedom, Keckley was a master mantua-maker who got herself the coveted position of dressmaker to the president’s wife. There was a little link at the bottom of the article about Keckley’s memoir, and it was too enticing to pass up. Happily, even though it was published in 1868, my library had a copy of it! The […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: cbr12bingo, civil war, Elizabeth Keckley, friendship, Jennifer Fleischner, Lincoln, slave narrative, US History

Ale's CBR12 Review No:8 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: cbr12bingo, civil war, Elizabeth Keckley, friendship, Jennifer Fleischner, Lincoln, slave narrative, US History ·
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Meets All the Hype

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

December 13, 2019 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

I wanted to read this book for years. I even bought it an Audible during a sale at one point but I put off reading it due to its length.  I was really just looking for the right time to commit to it fully. That happened this summer as my family and I moved back across the country from California to Virginia.  My wife and the kids flew as our children are really young.  I drove with the dogs and rocked out to a few […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: American Civil War, Chase, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln, Seward

thewheelbarrow's CBR11 Review No:37 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: American Civil War, Chase, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln, Seward ·
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Stick with Doris Kearns Goodwin

January 19, 2016 by expandingbookshelf 4 Comments

One of the issues with being a history nut (besides the fact that people tell you to get a better hobby, have you tried knitting?) is that you end up covering the same ground a lot. Normally that’s pretty interesting; I’ve read way too many books about the Roosevelts, but I’m able to glean something new from each new book. Unfortunately, sometimes you read a history book that’s decent, but it doesn’t really give you something new. Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bloody Crimes, civil war, Doris Kearns Goodwin, history, James L. Swanson, Jefferson Davies, Lincoln, Non-Fiction

Post by expandingbookshelf · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Bloody Crimes, civil war, Doris Kearns Goodwin, history, James L. Swanson, Jefferson Davies, Lincoln, Non-Fiction ·
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