![]() ![]() ![]() It was on the strength of arguments such as Hamilton’s that the system in the United States came to be known as “the Administration” as opposed to other eligible nomenclatures. Goodwin, therefore, explored how what Alexander Hamilton identified in Federalist Papers 68-72 as the soul of government-namely, coherent, stable, energetic administration of the laws under a single command-fared in the face of political realities. Indeed, it is quite probable that Lincoln was acutely aware, as he named Chase, Seward, Stanton, and Blair to his cabinet (and implicitly included Sumner), that he was relying on people each of whom considered himself worthier to be president than Lincoln. The analysis bore out the intended implication of the title of the book, namely, that Lincoln’s cabinet consisted of rivals, not among themselves, but to Lincoln himself. ![]() ![]() Goodwin carefully analyzed Lincoln’s cabinet to unfold the extent to which the commander-in-chief effectively determined the shape of political administration or merely coordinated competing centers of political administration. When in 2005 Doris Kearns Goodwin published Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, a standard was established for the analysis of the dynamics of political administration in the United States. ![]()
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