Team of Rivals: Lincoln Film Tie-in Edition - Softcover

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241966086 ISBN 13: 9780241966082

Publisher: Penguin, 2012

Synopsis

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

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Review:

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)

From the Publisher:

- 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0241966086
• ISBN 13: 9780241966082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 960