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Team of rivals
Team of rivals









Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this brilliant work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize-winner Doris Kearns Goodwin profiles five of the key players in her book, four of whom contended for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination and all of whom later worked together in Lincoln's cabinet. It is also a multiple biography of the entire team of personal and political competitors that he put together to lead the country through its greatest crisis. The best-selling and multi-award winning Team of Rivals doesn't just tell the story of Abraham Lincoln.











Team of rivals