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Team of Rivals
book by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, published by Simon & Schuster.
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The book is a biographical portrait of U.S. PresidentAbraham Lincoln and some of the men who served with him in his cabinet from to Three of his Cabinet members had previously run against Lincoln in the election: Attorney GeneralEdward Bates, Secretary of the TreasurySalmon P.
Chase and Secretary of StateWilliam 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 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 u