In 2012, a Steven Spielberg film based on the book was released to critical acclaim. 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. Team of Rivals The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By: Doris Kearns Goodwin Narrated by: Suzanne Toren Length: 41 hrs and 32 mins 4. 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.

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. Three of his Cabinet members had previously run against Lincoln in the 1860 election: Attorney General Edward Bates, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. President Abraham Lincoln and some of the men who served with him in his cabinet from 1861 to 1865. Winner of the Lincoln Prize Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Abraham Lincolns 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. And Im sorry to say that the gambit was successful. The book is a biographical portrait of U.S. Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Her book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln about Lincoln and his cabinet was a determined attempt to rehabilitate her reputation and get herself back in the good graces of polite liberal society. 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.

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