Ever since, she has been churning out books and working on projects with a particular focus on presidential history, of which “Team of Rivals” is best known. Johnson’s administration and later helped him write his memoirs while teaching classes on government at Harvard for 10 years. Goodwin is a renowned historian who has been particularly lauded for her presidential biographies. I had heard great things about the book, particularly that its commentary on the inner workings of a presidential Cabinet comes off as particularly prescient today. We want a government that can unify us, a sense of goodwill and common understanding between citizens, and we feel as though we want those things back, as though they were wrenched from our grasp by evil forces beyond our comprehension.Ī couple of months ago, as I was indulging in a recent book-buying spree at a book barn, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 2005 book “Team of Rivals” caught my eye. A common refrain that I hear from my classmates (and myself) is that we want things back “the way they were,” back in a world where policy debate rather than partisan debacles defined our national political discourse. Every few days, it seems, some new, unprecedented, polarizing event unfolds. It practically goes without saying at this point that we are currently living through an extraordinary period in world history.
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