Team of Rivals

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Subjects: 1864 presidential election, 1860 Republican National Convention, Genius, Biography, Presidents, Politics and government, secretary of war, Union Army, Biographies, Case studies, Génie (Aptitude), Large type books, New York Times bestseller, American Civil War, Political leadership, Amis et relations, Politique et gouvernement, Leadership politique, USA, Presidenter, Cas, Études de, Democratic Party, Présidents, Friends and associates, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Biografier (Form), secretary of state, Republican Party, abolitionism in the United States, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2012-11-25, United states, politics and government, 1861-1865, Thirteenth Amendment, secretary of treasury, United States Attorney General, Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Politische Führung, Freundeskreis, Friendship

Description: 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. 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.