#6 in Politics & society
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- NYT bestseller · 13 weeks on the list, peaked at #5
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About the book
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.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.8 across 171 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 54% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Politics & society average of 8.0. That is how 8.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.8 | 11 | 6% |
| Hardcover | 8.8 | 160 | 94% |
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