Team of Rivals (Abridged): The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Audiobook

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• “A remarkable study in leadership.” 

  — Barack Obama

• “Endlessly absorbing…[A] lovingly rendered and masterfully fashioned book.” 

  — 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.” 

  — New York Times

• “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.”

  — New Times Book Review

• “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.” 

  — Los Angeles Times

• “The task the popular historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has set for herself in writing the history of Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet in Team of Rivals is neither easy nor immediately attractive. But this immense, finely boned book is no dull administrative or bureaucratic history; rather, it is a story of personalities—a messianic drama, if you will—in which Lincoln must increase and the others must decrease.”

  — Washington Post

• “Richard Thomas sheds his ‘good old boy’ persona to deliver the strategies and party politics of Abe’s public office with strength and vigor and the great sorrows of his private life in a subdued, anguish-filled tone. There are a few dry patches, cataloging historic events, but Thomas never gives in to the boredom. The Civil War is presented in vividly dramatic detail, capped by an inspiring Gettysburg Address and a dignified account of Lincoln’s assassination. A masterful bio, read by a master storyteller. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award.”

  — AudioFile