The award-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, is the book that inspired Barack Obama during his presidency. This work provided Obama with the model for his presidency, showing how Abraham Lincoln saved America by appointing his fiercest opponents to key positions in the government. Aside from being a fascinating piece of narrative history, it is an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen.

"A wonderful book... a remarkable study of leadership" - Barack Obama.

"A portrait of Lincoln as a charismatic political and managerial giant" - The New York Times.

"I haven't enjoyed a historical book as much in a long time" - Robert Harris.

Doris Kearns Goodwin is the leading presidential historian of the USA and one of the most recognized non-fiction authors in the world. Her works include Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga, and No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995.

Pages: 976, Year of Publication: 0212, Dimensions: 13x13cm