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Informationen zum Autor Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln . She won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II and is also the author of the bestsellers Wait Till Next Year , The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys , and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream . She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard N. Goodwin. Klappentext Team of Rivals is a brilliant! multi-million selling biography! now the inspiration for a major Stephen Spielberg film starring Daniel Day-Lewis 'A wonderful book . . . a remarkable study in leadership' Barack Obama 'The most uplifting book that I have read in the last two decades. Sensational' Jon Snow Team of Rivals shows how Abraham Lincoln saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history! it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. 'I have not enjoyed a history book as much for years' Robert Harris 'A brilliant book ... I couldn't get enough of it' Sir Alex Ferguson 'A fabulously engrossing! exciting narrative in the grand old style ... overflowing with colour and character' Dominic Sandbrook 'A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius' Michiko Kakutani! New York Times Zusammenfassung Team of Rivals is a brilliant, multi-million selling biography, now the inspiration for a major Stephen Spielberg film starring Daniel Day-Lewis 'A wonderful book . . . a remarkable study in leadership' Barack Obama 'The most uplifting book that I have read in the last two decades. Sensational' Jon Snow Team of Rivals shows how Abraham Lincoln saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. 'I have not enjoyed a history book as much for years' Robert Harris 'A brilliant book ... I couldn't get enough of it' Sir Alex Ferguson 'A fabulously engrossing, exciting narrative in the grand old style ... overflowing with colour and character' Dominic Sandbrook 'A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times ...
