Team of Rivals Chapters 7-9: The Craft of Elections

Hi there readers,

This week, we read about the nascent Republican Party’s 1860 convention as well as the autumn election that catapulted one of the all-time unlikeliest candidates to the White House.

Doris Goodwin did a masterful job showing us Lincoln’s tactical brilliance, the other candidates’ faltering campaigns, and the number of events that went j…