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This multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. Historian Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as the one-term congressman rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals to become president. When Lincoln emerged as the victor at the Republican National Convention, his rivals were dismayed. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery led inexorably to civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was because of his extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. It was this that enabled Lincoln to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union.
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Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, Thurlow Weed, James K. Polk, Stephen A. Douglas, Lewis Thornton Powell, Ulysses S. Grant, George B. McClellan (1826-1885), Henry Halleck, George Meade, Simon Cameron, Edwin M. Stanton, William Wallace Lincoln, Katherine Jane Chase Sprague, Mary Todd Lincoln, Judge McLean, Ben Wade, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)Showing 5 featured editions. View all 14 editions?
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Team of Rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln
2013, Penguin Books, Penguin
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Team of Rivals
2013, Thorndike Press
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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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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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