Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Doris Kearns GoodwinPrice: from $28.76
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Keywords: abraham lincoln, education, experience, hillary clinton, politics
In January of 2008, Presidential hopeful Barack Obama was asked by Katie Couric what the most essential book would be in his White House, if elected. Obama did not hesitate to say “Team of Rivals.” In this book, Doris Kearns Goodwin takes a close look at Abraham Lincoln’s decision to appoint three men to his cabinet, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Edward Bates.
These men were his rivals who had more education and more experience than the President. Each one of them challenged Lincoln for the Republican nomination in 1860. When President-elect Obama appointed Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State, it immediately proved to the world the positive influence this book and Abraham Lincoln had on his political decisions.
