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Team of Rivals
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
. The book is a biographical portrait of
U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln
and some of the men who served with him in his
cabinet
from 1861 to 1865. Three of his Cabinet members had previously run against Lincoln in the
1860 election
:
Attorney General
Edward Bates
,
Secretary of the Treasury
Salmon P. Chase
and
Secretary of State
William H. Seward
. 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
.
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