Team of rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin

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