书籍介绍
这本书真正独特的地方，不在于又讲了一遍林肯如何解放黑人、维护统一，而在于它把镜头对准了林肯内阁里那群本该与他势不两立的人：国务卿苏厄德、财政部长蔡斯、检察总长贝茨，以及后来入阁的陆军部长斯坦顿。他们曾在竞选中把林肯当作必须击败的对手，却最终被林肯收编为最得力的干将。作者没有把这笔政治奇迹简单归功于“人格魅力”四个字，而是细致交代了每个人各自的野心、出身、性格缺陷与政治算计——正是这些棱角分明的个体，构成了一个互相牵制又彼此成就的内阁。对普通读者而言，它更像一部关于“如何与难相处的人共事”的现实教材：林肯的收服之道，建立在他愿意抛开个人小节、只抓住国家大势之上的克制与远见。它适合那些对“办公室政治”“领导艺术”有实际兴趣、而非只想读英雄传奇的人。
作者简介
作者：(美国)多丽丝 科恩斯 古德温 译者：尤以丁
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核心看点
- 首创团队传记视角，展现林肯化敌为友的政治智慧。
- 深度刻画苏厄德等四位劲敌幕僚的生平与心路历程。
- 揭示林肯以高尚人格感召对手，凝聚分裂国家的历程。
读者共识
- 林肯的人格魅力与高超情商令人叹为观止。
- 立体丰满的人物刻画超越了传统英雄主义叙事。
- 翻译质量参差，部分读者认为英文版更原汁原味。
精彩摘录
- "shortly before he died from a blood clot at the age of sixty-six in 1905, he dreamed that he had returned "to the White House to the President who turned out to be Mr. Lincoln. He was very kind and considerate, and sympathetic about my illness...He gave me two unimportant letters to answer. I was pl"
- "威德写到：“很多晚上，在车里，我一直在想您必须经受的种种严酷折磨，它将是[一场]对智慧和性情的极大考验。对于智慧的考验，您不会失败；但是在六十岁的时候，对我们性情的考验，我们都没有很大把握……”"
- "If I live I'm coming back some time, and then well go right on practising law as if nothing had ever happened."
- "ABRAHAM LINCOLN, William Henry Seward, Salmon Chase, and Edward Bates were members of a restless generation of Americans, destined to leave behind the eighteenth-century world of their fathers. Bates, the oldest, was born when George Washington was still president; Seward and Chase during Jefferson’"
- "Meanwhile, he continued to speak out on behalf of black citizens. In March 1846, a terrifying massacre took place in Seward’s hometown. A twenty-three-year-old black man named William Freeman, recently released from prison after serving five years for a crime it was later determined he did not commi"
- "which lasted nearly four hours. At one point, Seward interrupted to ask for an explanation of something Douglas had said. “Ah,” Douglas retorted, “youcan’t crawl behind that free n-r dodge.” In reply, Seward said: “Douglas, no man will ever be President of the United States who spells ‘negro’ with t"
- "Unlike the majority of antislavery orators, who denounced the South and castigated slaveowners as corrupt and un-Christian, Lincoln pointedly denied fundamental differences between Northerners and Southerners. He argued that “they are just what we would be in their situation. If slavery did not now "
- "Less than two decades earlier, Alexis de Tocqueville, who was deeply opposed to slavery and believed emancipation to be inevitable, had written: “The most dreadful of all the evils that threaten the future of the United States arises from the presence of blacks on its soil.” Evenin the states where "
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不一样的政治团队传记
不可思议的美国…
比较列传。和作者的《非常年代》一样，通过四人的公私生活勾勒出十九世纪中期美国的风貌。书是好书，可惜排印的像盗版书。
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4他是掌握时机的大师。敬小慎微步步为营不轻举妄动
5看似老实实则深谋远虑
6谨慎克制是忍耐力的表现
他是唯一一位接近完人的人。
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林肯接任的是一个极其分裂的政治格局。在以北方势力为主的的联邦中，激进派、中间派、摇摆的边境州等均势如水火。为此，林肯组建了一个几乎是互为敌人，甚至好几个鄙视林肯本人的内阁。在任中，林肯表现出超乎寻常的自信和融和各派政治力量的能力。可以说，没有这种政治妥协，美国现在就是北方联邦国和南方联邦国了。在此过程中，林肯容忍各派和各个内阁成员的意见，利用他们的政治野心将各派融和在一起，通过超高的情商让众人团结在一起。 Goodwin最大的成功还是写活了林肯。在其他人的著作中，这位美国历史上最伟大的总统更多时间在为国为民，只有在Goodwin一书中我们才能更多的看到活生生的林肯是怎样生活的，是怎样因为苦难而绝望，又是怎样以钢铁般的意志挺了过来，并最终实现了自己在历史上留下一笔、并获得他人尊重的梦想。
翻译不知所云
9.1分的高分应该是英文版吧，英文版读过感觉9.1分有些过誉了。书中每到关键时刻，林肯的作为和作为描写的比较简要，甚至会有种林肯被命运推着走的感觉。另外就是穿插了太多夸凯特如何漂亮的段落了，每次提到凯特就得展开，倒不如把笔墨多用在林肯的关键时刻。
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