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Team of Rivals

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin

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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.

Genres

  • Union Army
  • Thirteenth Amendment
  • assassination of Abraham Lincoln
  • secretary of war
  • 1864 presidential election
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • secretary of state
  • secretary of treasury
  • United States Attorney General
  • American Civil War
  • Lincoln-Douglas debates
  • Democratic Party
  • abolitionism in the United States
  • Republican Party
  • 1860 Republican National Convention
  • Case studies
  • Politics and government
  • Genius
  • Friends and associates
  • Political leadership
  • Presidents
  • Biography
  • Cas, Études de
  • Biographies
  • Génie (Aptitude)
  • Présidents
  • Leadership politique
  • Politique et gouvernement
  • Amis et relations
  • USA
  • Biografier (Form)
  • Freundeskreis
  • Politische Führung
  • Friendship
  • Presidenter
  • Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865
  • United states, politics and government, 1861-1865
  • Large type books
  • nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2012-11-25
  • New York Times bestseller
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About the author

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin

    born 4 January 1943

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Editions

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    imusti, Penguin Books

    Feb 01, 2009

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    Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing

    Nov 07, 2005

  • Edition cover

    Film Tie-in Ed edition (8)

    Penguin Books, Penguin

    2013

  • Edition cover

    Recorded Books

    2011-03-28

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Large print edition; movie tie-in

Thorndike Press

2013

  • Edition cover

    Simon & Schuster

    2005

  • Edition cover

    First Simon & Schuster paperback edition (10)

    Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, Simon & Schuster

    2006

  • Edition cover

    Simon & Schuster

    2005

  • Edition cover

    Recorded Books

    2003

  • Edition cover

    Thorndike Press

    2013

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    Chu ban

    Da kuai wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si

    2012

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    Not Avail

    January 2005

  • Edition cover

    Unabridged edition

    Recorded Books, LLC

    2006

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    1-pʻan

    Buk Isibil, 21-segi Buksŭ

    2007