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Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin's sweeping portrait of Abraham Lincoln and the three rivals he beat for the nomination and then made into his cabinet. A nine-hundred-page master class in political leadership, magnanimity, and the management of formidable egos under impossible pressure.