Synopsis

Film Tie-In Edition. Based in Part on "Team of Rivals - The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.

The film was a revealing drama about a great American president, written by a great American playwright. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. A decade-long collaboration between three-time Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg and Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner, Lincoln is a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office.

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.

Having just won re-election in a country divided, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of America, and generations, to come.

Details

• Format : Very Thick 2nd Hand Paperback
• Condition : Very Good
• Category : Non-Fiction : Biography & Autobiography
• Published : 2005 (This Edition 2013 - Penguin)
• ISBN : 9780241966082
• SKU : B002858
• PPC : SP600gm
• RRP : £12.99
• Quantity Available : 1 only.

External Reviews

"I would have given this book more stars if I could have. I think I loved this book so much because Abraham Lincoln was such an absolutely amazing person. We are all taught that Lincoln was one of America's great presidents, and we know that he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, but he is so much greater of a man than I ever knew." - Goodreads Review.

"A wonderful book . . . a remarkable study in leadership." - Barrack Obama.

"An elegant, incisive study . . . Goodwin has brilliantly described how Lincoln forged a team that preserved a nation and freed America from the curse of slavery." - James M. McPherson, The New York Times Book Review.

"Endlessly absorbing . . . a lovingly rendered and masterfully fashioned book." - The Wall Street Journal.

"Goodwin's narrative abilities are on full display here, and she does an enthralling job of dramatizing...crucial moments in Lincoln's life. A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times.

"Splendid, beautifully written. Goodwin has brilliantly woven scores of contemporary accounts . . . into a fluid narrative. This is the most richly detailed account of the Civil War presidency to appear in many years." - John Rhodehamel, Los Angeles Times.

The Author

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. Her interest in leadership began more than half a century ago as a professor at Harvard. Her experiences working for Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House and later assisting him on his memoirs led to her bestselling Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. She earned the Lincoln Prize for the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals, the basis for Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit, the New York Times bestselling chronicle of the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.