Doris Kearns Goodwin.
doris kearns goodwin: abraham lincoln biography
team of rivals: the political genius of abraham lincoln (2005)
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The eminent American biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin has produced a fascinating account of the life of the Abraham Lincoln (born 1865). Lincoln grew up in a log cabin in Kentucky, worked on the Missisippi paddle steamers, taught himself the law, and developed a successful legal practice. He became leader of the newly-formed Repulican Party, becoming President in 1861. The book paints an equally vivid portrait of the four eminent politicians whom Lincoln beat in the presidential contest and who, astonishingly, worked well with him in his cabinet and transformed from bitter opponents to lifelong admirers of Lincoln. He was to be severely tested by the American Civil War, from which he emerged with great distinction. He was tragically assassinated in 1865.
The review of the book in the New York Times described it as: ‘A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius'.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) was brought up in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Colby College, then obtained her PhD from Harvard University. She was a White House Fellow during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, then taught government at Harvard Univesity for ten years. She helped Lyndon Johnson write his memoirs, and published her first book - Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream - which became a New York Times best seller. She subsequently wrote biographies of the Kennedys and of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt,
