{"id":607,"date":"2015-09-27T16:08:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T16:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/?p=607"},"modified":"2016-10-26T14:05:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:05:47","slug":"essay-myth-of-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-myth-of-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSAY &#8211;Myth of Rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, Matthew Pinsker produced an op-ed for the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times\u00a0<\/em>that challenged the way then President-Elect Barack Obama was interpreting the popular study of the Lincoln Administration (<em>Team of Rivals<\/em>)\u00a0by presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. \u00a0Pinsker&#8217;s short essay has been reproduced online by <em>The Journal Divided\u00a0<\/em>allowing students to gain direct access to the sources that he used so they can decide for themselves.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2008\/nov\/18\/opinion\/oe-pinsker18\" target=\"_blank\">The Myth of Rivals<\/a> (original publication, LA Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/journal\/2010\/06\/07\/team-of-rivals-op-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Myth of Rivals<\/a>\u00a0(Teaching Edition from <em>Journal Divided<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, Matthew Pinsker produced an op-ed for the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0that challenged the way then President-Elect Barack Obama was interpreting the popular study of the Lincoln Administration (Team of Rivals)\u00a0by presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. \u00a0Pinsker&#8217;s short essay has been&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-myth-of-rivals\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23792,119181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}