These represent pretty much what the common wisdom was before Doris Kearns Goodwin's book and explain why it was:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-pinsker18-2008nov18,0,1022347.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/opinion/20oakes.html
Although I have to admit that after months of pooing on this idea, I am now actually curious to read the book, which, to be fair, might be richer than the single summary proposition "Team of rivals...good."
Michael