Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln [Hardcover]

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 )

I have not enjoyed a history book as much for years (Robert Harris The Observer (Books of the Year) )

A fabulously engrossing, exciting narrative in the grand old style ... overflowing with colour and character (Dominic Sandbrook )

A brilliant book ... I couldn't get enough of it (Alex Ferguson )

Goodwin's narrative abilities are on full display here. A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius (Michiko Kakutani New York Times ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

"I have not enjoyed a history book as much for years. A pure delight" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

"Goodwin's narrative abilities are on full display. A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

"Endlessly absorbing. [A] lovingly rendered and
masterfully fashioned book" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

"A brilliantly conceived and well-written tour de force of a historical narrative. Goodwin's emotive prose elevates this tome from mere popular history to literary achievement"
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

A wonderful book. A remarkable study in leadership --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

I have not enjoyed a history book as much for years. A pure delight --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Utterly stunning, revealing, and poignant. A completely brilliant book that gives great insight into Lincoln and into America's historic struggle with slavery, the civil war and the establishment of the United States --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Goodwin's narrative abilities are on full display. A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Endlessly absorbing. [A] lovingly rendered and masterfully fashioned book --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

In this monumental multiple 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 help achieve his vision for peace. 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. A book to bury yourself in. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

- Winner of six literary prizes including the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Selected as Book of the Year by Jeremy Paxman and Robert Harris
- More than one million copies sold in America --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Doris Kearns Goodwin is the doyenne of US presidential historians, and one of the most acclaimed non-fiction authors in the world. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.