Team of Rivals Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publish Date: 2005/10/25 Synopsis: An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election above three accomplished candidates, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in forming his cabinet and winning the Civil War
By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of No Ordinary Time. 350,000 first printing. Language: ENGLISH Pages: 916 Dimensions: 9.75 x 6.75 x 2.00 Weight: 3.15
^Doris Kearns Goodwin (2012). 9780684824901, Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780684824901 (revised Dec 2013)
^Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2005, Hardcover)ISBN 9780684824901 (revised May 2020)
^Goodwin, Doris Kearns (2014). Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Simon & Schuster. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780684824901 (revised Nov 2023)
Ms. Goodwin has created a gem of a masterpiece with her most recent book on Lincoln. In the millions of pages already written on the subject, there are no books that I know of that do in essence, a character study on Lincoln and his cabinet members. The 754 page text is one of the best ever written regarding the true and underlying nature of those men who served with Lincoln in his cabinet.While events and persons such as Antietam, Jefferson Davis, Fort Sumter, Maryland's secession attempt and many other ..
Doris Kearns Goodwin delivers and delivers well with "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln". The scope of her work is Lincoln's inner circle of Seward, Stanton, Chase and Bates but, more broadly, his ability to handle people and politics. Goodwin vividedly demonstrates Lincoln's uncanny timing regarding the implementation of emancipation and gives a fair assessment of his views regarding the "peculiar institution". This book is about Lincoln as a leader, a manager and a politician. It..
I feel I'm being somewhat presumptuous adding this, the 246th review to date of Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals" but I have my two cents and aim to chuck it in. My perspective is not only that of an avid reader and student of US History, but as a teacher of it. From any standpoint I can most unequivocally add my endorsement of this masterful work.I did not feel so much as I read about Abraham Lincoln as hung out with him and to a slightly lesser extent his cabinet. For one thing the book is long ..
