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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