Team of Rivals

What is Team of Rivals about?

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin traces Abraham Lincoln's 1860 nomination and presidency by weaving together the lives of the men he defeated for the Republican nomination and then appointed to his cabinet, including William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Edward Bates. The book examines how Lincoln managed rivals, ambition, and dissent while leading the country through the Civil War.