Team Of Rivals

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In this monumental 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 achieve his vision for peace.

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Publish Date: 29/11/2012

Description

Team of Rivals is a brilliant, multi-million selling biography, now the inspiration for a major Stephen Spielberg film starring Daniel Day-Lewis

‘A wonderful book . . . a remarkable study in leadership’
Barack Obama

‘The most uplifting book that I have read in the last two decades. Sensational’
Jon Snow

Team of Rivals shows how Abraham Lincoln saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions.

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.

‘I have not enjoyed a history book as much for years’
Robert Harris

‘A brilliant book … I couldn’t get enough of it’
Sir Alex Ferguson

‘A fabulously engrossing, exciting narrative in the grand old style … overflowing with colour and character’
Dominic Sandbrook

‘A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius’
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Additional information

Weight 662 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 41 mm
Author
Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

916

Language

English

Edition

Film tie-in edition

Dewey

973.7092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K