Title: Team of Rivals
First published: 2005
Description: 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.

Goodwin's sixth book, Team of Rivals was well received by critics and won the 2006 Lincoln Prize and the inaugural Book Prize for American History of the New-York Historical Society. US President Barack Obama cited it as one of his favorite books and was said to have used it as a model for constructing his own cabinet, although he later wrote this was not the reason he chose Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State. In 2012, a Steven Spielberg film based on the book was released to critical acclaim.
Subjects: Union Army, Thirteenth Amendment, assassination of Abraham Lincoln, secretary of war, 1864 presidential election, Emancipation Proclamation, secretary of state, secretary of treasury, United States Attorney General, American Civil War, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Democratic Party, abolitionism in the United States, Republican Party, 1860 Republican National Convention, Case studies, Politics and government, Genius, Friends and associates, Political leadership, Presidents, Biography, Cas, Études de, Biographies, Génie (Aptitude), Présidents, Leadership politique, Politique et gouvernement, Amis et relations, USA, Biografier (Form), Freundeskreis, Politische Führung, Friendship, Presidenter, Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, United states, politics and government, 1861-1865, Large type books, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2012-11-25, New York Times bestseller
Places: United States, Ohio, New York, Missouri, Illinois, Chicago, Fort Sumter, North Carolina, Washington D. C., Pennsylvania
People: Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, Thurlow Weed, James K. Polk, Stephen A. Douglas, Lewis Thornton Powell, Ulysses S. Grant, George B. McClellan (1826-1885), Henry Halleck, George Meade, Simon Cameron, Edwin M. Stanton, William Wallace Lincoln, Katherine Jane Chase Sprague, Mary Todd Lincoln, Judge McLean, Ben Wade, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Time periods: 1861-1865, 1860, 1864
LC classification: E457.45 .G66 2005