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  • Published: 20 January 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141931418
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 944

Team of Rivals

The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln




The book that inspired Barack Obama - available for the first time in the UK

In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She shows how he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions, making them help achieve his vision for peace. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. A book to bury yourself in.

  • Published: 20 January 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141931418
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 944

About the author

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time. She is also the author of the bestselling Wait till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband Richard Goodwin.

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