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DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN’s interest in leadership began more than half a century ago as a professor at Harvard. Her experiences working for LBJ in the White House and later assisting him on his memoirs led to the bestselling Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize–winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. She earned the Lincoln Prize for the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals, the basis for Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award–winning film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit, the New York Times bestselling chronicle of the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
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ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES
AL
Abraham Lincoln
ARC
Anna Roosevelt Cowles
BP
Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Bully Pulpit. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
CRR
Corrine Roosevelt Robinson
CW
Roy P. Basler, ed. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. 8 vols. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953.
DKG
Doris Kearns Goodwin
DKG/LBJ
Conversations between the author and LBJ, in the possession
Conversations
of the author.
ER
Eleanor Roosevelt
FDR
Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDRL
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York
HCL
Henry Cabot Lodge
HI
Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds. Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
LBJ
Lyndon Baines Johnson
LBJOH
LBJ Library Oral History
LC
Library of Congress
LJAD
Doris Kearns Goodwin. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
LTR
Theodore Roosevelt; Elting E. Morison, John M. Blum, and John J. Buckley, eds. The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt. 8 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1951–1954.
Nicolay Papers
Papers of John J. Nicolay, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
NOT
Doris Kearns Goodwin. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
NYT
New York Times
OHRO/CUL
Oral History Research Office Collection of the Columbia University Libraries
PPA
Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Vols. 1–5. New York: Random House, 1938.
PPP
Lyndon Baines Johnson. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1964–1970.
PRLBJ
The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson. 7 vols. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
SDR
Sara Delano Roosevelt
Steffens Papers
Lincoln Steffens Papers. Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Columbia University
TOR
Doris Kearns Goodwin. Team of Rivals. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
TR
Theodore Roosevelt
TRC
Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University
TRP
Theodore Roosevelt Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
VP
Lyndon Baines Johnson. The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963–1969. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.
WTR
Theodore Roosevelt; Hermann Hagedorn, ed. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt. 24 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923–1926.
NOTES
FOREWORD
“I have often thought . . . ‘real me!’ ”: William Zinsser, ed., Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography (Winter Park, Fla.: American Heritage Press, 1986), pp. 181–82.
“If there is not the war . . . have known his name now”: TR, “The Conditions of Success,” May 26, 1910, WTR, 13:575.
“It is not in the still calm . . . out great virtues”: Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, Jan. 19, 1780, The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, Vol. 3, April 1778–September 1780, ed. L. H. Butterfield and Marc Friedlaender (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973), pp. 268–69.
“Rarely was man so fitted to the event”: Abraham Lincoln eulogy by Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 15, 1865, http://www.rwe.org/abraham-lincoln-15-april-1865-eulogy-by-ralph-waldo-emerson/.
“I have only . . . army have done it all”: Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln, A Life (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), pp. 750–51.
“With public sentiment . . . nothing can succeed”: AL, “Fragment: Notes for Speeches [Aug. 21, 1858], CW 2:553.
CHAPTER ONE
Abraham: “Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition”
“Every man is . . . many of you”: AL, “Communication to the People of Sangamon County,” March 9, 1832, CW, 1:8.
“I was born . . . much chagrined”: Ibid., p. 9.
“strong conviction . . . even possible”: Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness (New York: Mariner, 2006), p. 17.
“condensed into . . . of the poor”: John L. Scripps, in HI, p. 57.
“more in the way . . . his own name”: AL, “Autobiography Written for John L. Scripps” [c. June 1860], CW, 4:61.
“she was superior . . . in Every way”: Nathaniel Grigsby, HI, p. 113.
“keen—shrewd—smart”: Dennis F. Hanks, ibid., p. 37.
“All that I am . . . my mother”: Michael Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994), p. 42.
milk sickness: HI, p. 40; Philip D. Jordan, “The Death of Nancy Hanks Lincoln,” Indiana Magazine of History (June 1944), pp. 103–10.
“a wild region”: AL, “Autobiography written for Jesse W. Fell,” Dec. 20, 1859, CW, 3:511.
“the panther’s . . . on the swine”: “The Bear Hunt,” [Sept. 6, 1846?] CW, 1:386.
“wild—ragged & dirty”: Quoted by Dennis Hanks, HI, p. 41.
“snug and comfortable” . . . clothing for the children: A. H. Chapman, HI, p. 99.
“He was the learned . . . unlearned folks”: Anna Caroline Gentry, HI, p. 132.
“He carried away . . . equal”: David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 32.
“the best”: Louis Warren, Lincoln’s Youth: Indiana Years, Seven to Twenty-One, 1816–1830 (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1959), p. 80.
“marvelously retentive”: Allen C. Guelzo, “Lincoln and Leadership: An Afterword,” in Randall M. Miller, ed., Lincoln and Leadership: Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), p. 100.
“a wonder . . . rub it out”: Joshua Speed, HI, p. 499.
“When he came . . . rewrite it”: Sarah Bush Lincoln, HI, p. 107.
“When a mere child . . . bounded it west”: Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, 4 vols. (New York: Lincoln Historical Society, 1903), Vol. 1, pp. 43–44.
“The ambition . . . whilst we played”: Grigsby, HI, p. 114.
“letters, words . . . could be drawn”: Warren, Lincoln’s Youth, p. 24.
“the best penman . . . neighborhood”: Joseph C. Richardson, HI, pp. 473–74.
“their guide and leader”: Grigsby, HI, p. 114.
“great pains” . . . not the moon: Anna Caroline Gentry, HI, p. 132.
“When he appeared . . . what he said”: Grigsby, HI, pp. 114–15.
“no small part . . . up and down”: AL, quoted in Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995), pp. 312–13.
“the Style & tone” . . . Baptist preachers: Chapman, HI, p. 102.
additional material for his storytelling . . . the nearest courthouse: Chapman, HI, p. 102; Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 1, p. 36.
“winning smile”: Horace White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854 (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Society, 1908), p. 19.
“there was not a corn blade . . . on a stalk”: Oliver C. Terry, HI, p. 662.
“Josiah blowing his bugle”: AL, “Chronicles of Reuben,” in Carl Sandberg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, vol. 1 (New York: Char
les Scribner’s Sons, 1943) p. 55.
“it was wrong . . . cruelty to animals”: Grigsby, HI, p. 112.
“pulled a trigger on any larger game”: Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 1, p. 25.
“It was a man” . . . to warm him up: David Turnham, HI, p. 122.
pig caught: Helen Nicolay, Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Century, 1912), p. 81.
“ready to out-run . . . out-lift anybody”: Leonard Swett, in Allen Thorndike Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time (New York: North American, 1886), p. 71.
“could carry . . . & sweat at”: Joseph C. Richardson, HI, p. 120.
“sufficient to make . . . doubly wasted”: John B. Helm, HI, p. 48.
“he could lay his hands on”: Dennis Hanks, HI, p. 41.
“When I read aloud . . . remember it better”: Robert L. Wilson, HI, p. 207.
father’s treatment of AL: Dennis Hanks, HI, p. 41.
“I tried to stop . . . be got out”: Douglas L. Wilson, Honor’s Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Vintage, 1999), p. 57.
“His melancholy dript . . . as he walked”: William H. Herndon, “Analysis of the Character,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly (1941), p. 339.