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For a number of years, Paul Harvey was one of the highest rated and most popular radio personalities in America \u2013 with over 1,200 stations broadcasting his segments three times a day.\u00a0 He would share a historical story which would leave the listener assuming a certain ending.\u00a0 Then after a commercial break, he would come back on and say \u201cand now, the rest of the story.\u201d\u00a0 The endings were surprising, comical or tragic, but always unexpected.<\/p>\n

While reading Team of Rivals<\/em> by Doris Kearns Goodwin, I felt that if Paul Harvey were alive today, he could find ample fodder in the back-stories which hovered around Lincoln\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

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The theme is Lincoln\u2019s ability to incorporate and use people who might have been smarter or more popular, those with greater resources and connections, both friends and enemies, to better his administration.\u00a0 In using others to accomplish his wishes, he revealed his true leadership genius.\u00a0 Former rivals began supporting him.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t afraid of good or bad advice and sought out guidance even from those he didn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n

Family problems plagued Lincoln.\u00a0 Mary was not sane \u2013 at least some of the time – and racked up nearly a million dollars in today\u2019s currency refurbishing the White House and he was ugly (he probably wouldn\u2019t have been electable in today\u2019s media driven world).\u00a0 But they were in love at one time and Mary had her good points such as forcing Lincoln to take a daily drive with the family\u2013 to clear his head.<\/p>\n

Lincoln\u2019s job was to hold a nation together in spite of vast differences.\u00a0 But the back-stories or the \u201crest of the story\u201d is what I would have liked.<\/p>\n

I want to understand Robert E Lee more.\u00a0 We praise him because of his loyalty \u2013 but loyalty toward a geographic location (Virginia) over the anti-slavery principles that he espoused?\u00a0 Is loyalty above the law?\u00a0 Do we obey the law until it conflicts with our loyalty to family or location etc.?<\/p>\n

I was immediately drawn to the Rhode Island governor Sprague because of his diminutive height \u2013 the same as myself.\u00a0 He flourished and became a rich and powerful person but succumbed to drunkenness and a failed marriage \u2013 attempting to throw his wife from a balcony.\u00a0 What\u2019s the \u201crest of the story\u201d in his case?<\/p>\n

Or, what would history look like if it was told from a women\u2019s perspective, such as Julie Bates, with her 17 children and a life of pregnancy?\u00a0 Or the New York congressman who murdered the The Star Spangled Banner<\/em> author\u2019s son \u2013 Daniel Sickles \u2013 but became a favorite of Mary\u2019s dinner parties.<\/p>\n

Or the surprising friendship between teetotaler Lincoln and the hard drinking, smoking, cussing Episcopalian Seward, and that he actually used his time with his advisor for relaxation despite their differences.<\/p>\n

As one who loves geography, I remember when St. Louis ceased to be a travel hub for the now defunct TWA and later American Airlines.\u00a0 Both airlines have since pulled out, leaving the city that Bates described as becoming the \u201cruling city of the continent\u201d (67), a secondary city with little importance.\u00a0 What factors contributed to its decline?<\/p>\n

I wish Paul Harvey were still alive. Perhaps he could acknowledge the importance of Lincoln\u2019s leadership and his military intelligence but then share some of the backstories and \u201crest of the stories\u201d that permeated his presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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