Team of Rivals
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
5/5
Simon & Schuster 944 pages October 25, 2005
Doris Kearns Goodwin's masterful portrait of Abraham Lincoln's political genius, focusing on how he assembled his cabinet from his fiercest rivals and transformed them into allies who helped save the Union during the Civil War.
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Lincoln assembled a cabinet of people who hated him and turned them into his greatest allies. That's a power move even a bookworm can respect. Goodwin makes 19th-century politics read like a thriller — the rivalries, the backroom deals, the sheer emotional intelligence of Lincoln. The ending is devastating even though everyone knows how it ends. Five worms for the greatest leadership book ever disguised as a biography.
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