Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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He recalled a ferocious bulldog in his hometown. While neighbors convinced themselves that they had nothing to fear, one wise man observed: “I know the bulldog will not bite. You know he will not bite, but does the bulldog know he will not bite?”
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Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with hope in an uncharted future.