Leadership through relationships
Goodwin’s Team of Rivals places Lincoln among ambitious colleagues with their own constituencies and histories. The cabinet becomes a central setting for the account.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
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A historian of American presidents and the relationships through which they exercised leadership.
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Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 2005
Lincoln’s political leadership examined through the rivals who became members of his cabinet.
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