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ISBN:	0743270754 (ISBN13: 9780743270755)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates
Setting:	Springfield, Illinois,1860(United States) Chicago, Illinois,1860(United States) Illinois,1860(United States)
Literary Awards:	Benjamin Barondess Award (2006), Lincoln Prize (2006), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Biography (2005), New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Paperback | Pages: 916 pages

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Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.

On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.

Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires.

It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war.

We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through.

This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.

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Title	:	Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Author	:	Doris Kearns Goodwin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 916 pages
Published	:	September 26th 2006 by Simon & Schuster (first published October 25th 2005)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Biography. Politics. North American Hi.... American History. Military History. Civil War. Presidents

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I heard Goodwin talk about this book on NPR, and she sounded like she'd been an eyewitness to the events. Sold me the book.On June 17th--I've been a hundred pages from the end for ten days. I don't want Abe to die.July 17th -- Okay, I finally made myself finish. Abe's dead and I'm a wreck.In this book Goodwin puts Abraham Lincoln in the context of his peers, many of whom ran against him for the first Republican nomination for president (remember they'd just invented that party) and one of whom,

I don't read enough non-fiction. Like a lot of people, I'm sure, I thought I knew enough about Abraham Lincoln that a book on his presidency wouldn't hold my interest as much as a novel might. Happily, I was wrong, and this book gave me a profound sense of appreciation for the ol' "rail-splitter" and a renewed sense of pride in America's history (a feeling that's been somewhat battered of late). It took Doris Kearns Goodwin ten years to write the book, and no wonder. Her list of primary sources

5 Stars. This is well researched. I hope to do a review before this year ends.

Biographies aren't always boring tomes. Doris Kearns Goodwin does a magnificent job of detailing how Abraham Lincoln, a lesser known and ill-positioned candidate captures the Republican party's nomination, goes on to get elected President, and leads America through the tumult of the Civil War.While most of us know Lincoln as "honest Abe" and the President who emancipated slaves, Kearns-Goodwin offers a portrait of a man who took many of the men who'd he'd beaten out as the republican nominee

This is a wonderful nuanced book that resonates mightily with and informs what is going on today. Read it if you want to understand any kind of historical basis for what is now happening in the U.S. Read it if you love the minutia of historyevery conversation ever recorded during the Lincoln period, every permutation and convolution of the Civil War, the complex emotional motivations behind the factions (a lot of people fought more for preservation of the union than out of any conviction about

http://bestpresidentialbios.com/2014/...Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is, by almost any measure, the most popular biography of Abraham Lincoln. Written by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals has been widely read and revered since its publication in 2005. Goodwin is a Pulitzer-Prize winning author and historian who has also written notable biographies of Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.