GOODWIN, Doris Kearns.
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.
'The deathless name he sought from the start had grown far beyond Sangamon County and Illinois, reached across the truly United States, until his legacy, as Stanton had surmised at the moment of his death, belonged not only to America but to the ages - to be revered and sung throughout all time": First Edition of Team of Rivals; Inscribed by Doris Kearns Goodwin
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
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First edition of this acclaimed Civil War–era study on Lincoln’s leadership. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the third free endpaper, "To John Zanes, 'The deathless name he sought from the start had grown far beyond Sangamon County and Illinois, reached across the truly United States, until his legacy, as Stanton had surmised at the moment of his death, belonged not only to America but to the ages - to be revered and sung throughout all time.' Doris Kearns Goodwin." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate to the front pastedown of the recipient. Jacket design by Patti Ratchford. Accompanied by a laid in New York Times newspaper clipping titled "Friends of Abe" about the book's release and dated November 6, 2005. A unique example.
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) is a leading American historian and biographer whose narrative-driven studies of U.S. presidents have shaped both academic and popular understandings of political leadership. Educated at Colby College and Harvard, she first came to public attention through her work as a White House Fellow and later aide to Lyndon B. Johnson, experiences that informed her early scholarship on modern American liberalism. 'Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln' (2005) is a major work of presidential history that argues Lincoln’s greatest political strength lay in his ability to assemble—and then masterfully manage—a cabinet of former adversaries, including William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Edward Bates. Through a richly documented narrative that interweaves biography, party politics, and wartime governance, Goodwin presents Lincoln as an unusually adaptive leader whose emotional intelligence and strategic patience converted rivalry into effective statecraft during the Civil War. The book achieved wide critical and popular recognition, winning the Lincoln Prize in 2006 and the New-York Historical Society Book Prize for American History, becoming a long-running bestseller, and later serving as a principal source for Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln (2012).
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.
$1,250.00
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