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Lessons from the Presidents

Leadership in Turbulent Times

Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism

The Bully Pulpit

Lessons from the Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson for Turbulent Times

Leadership

Team of Rivals

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A wonderful book ... a remarkable study in leadership

The most uplifting book that I have read in the last two decades. Sensational

I have not enjoyed a history book as much for years

A  fabulously engrossing, exciting narrative in the grand old style ... overflowing with colour and character

A brilliant book ... I couldn't get enough of it

Goodwin's narrative abilities are on full display here. A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius

The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She shows how he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions, making them help achieve his vision for peace. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. A book to bury yourself in.

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The bestselling and prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency. 
 
When Barack Obama was asked which book he could not live without in the White House, his answer was instant: Team of Rivals. This monumental and brilliant work has given Obama the model for his presidency, showing how Abraham Lincoln saved America by appointing his fiercest rival to key cabinet positions. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. 
 
'A wonderful book . . . a remarkable study in leadership' Barack Obama 
 
'A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius' The New York Times 
 
'I have not enjoyed a history book as much for years' Robert Harris 
 
 
Doris Kearns Goodwin is the doyenne of US presidential historians, and one of the most acclaimed non-fiction authors in the world. Her works include Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga, and No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. 
 
© Doris Kearns Goodwin 2009 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. She won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II and is also the author of the bestsellers Wait Till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.

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The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

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