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the political genius of Abraham Lincoln

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An edition of ↪ /works/OL20837389W (2003)

Team of rivals

the political genius of Abraham Lincoln

  • 3.89 ·
  • 9 Ratings
  • 139 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 12 Have read

"Team of Rivals" shows how Abraham Lincoln saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen.

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Penguin
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Team of Rivals
2013, Thorndike Press
Hardcover in English - Large print edition; movie tie-in
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Team of Rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln
2013, Penguin Books, Penguin
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
2006, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, Simon & Schuster
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Team of Rivals: The political genius of Abraham Lincoln
2005, Simon & Schuster
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Edition Notes

Film tie-in.

Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005; London: Penguin, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.7092
Library of Congress
E457.45

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Pagination
pages

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28210351M
Internet Archive
teamofrivalspoli0000good
ISBN 10
0241966086, 0141043725
ISBN 13
9780241966082, 9780141043722
OCLC/WorldCat
812070146

Work Description

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is a 2005 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, published by Simon & Schuster. The book is a biographical portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and some of the men who served with him in his cabinet from 1861 to 1865. Three of his Cabinet members had previously run against Lincoln in the 1860 election: Attorney General Edward Bates, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase and Secretary of State William H. Seward. The book focuses on Lincoln's mostly successful attempts to reconcile conflicting personalities and political factions on the path to abolition and victory in the American Civil War.

Goodwin's sixth book, Team of Rivals was well received by critics and won the 2006 Lincoln Prize and the inaugural Book Prize for American History of the New-York Historical Society. US President Barack Obama cited it as one of his favorite books and was said to have used it as a model for constructing his own cabinet, although he later wrote this was not the reason he chose Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State. In 2012, a Steven Spielberg film based on the book was released to critical acclaim.

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On May 18,1860, the day when the Republican Party would nominate its candidate for president, Abraham Lincoln was up early.
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