Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Author(s): Doris Kearns Goodwin
A New York Times BestsellerBasis for the movie LincolnOn May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited for the results from the Republican National Convention. Lincoln won, Goodwin demonstrates, because of his extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men. It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the union and winning the war.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin is the doyenne of US presidential historians, and one of the most acclaimed non-fiction authors in the world. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995.
General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin (General UK)
- : 0.652
- : 01 January 2009
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Doris Kearns Goodwin
- : Paperback