Team of Rivals
2005 book by Doris Kearns Goodwin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
Author | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | October 25, 2005 |
Pages | 944 |
ISBN | 0-684-82490-6 (hardcover) ISBN 0-7432-7075-4 (paperback) |
OCLC | 61479616 |
973.7092 B 22 | |
LC Class | E457.45 .G66 2005 |
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.