Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. by Goodwin, Doris Kearns - 2005

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Early printing of this biographical portrait of President Abraham Lincoln and some of the men who served with him in his cabinet from 1861 to 1865. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Kathy, Doris Kearns Goodwin." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Patti Ratchford. "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" (James M. McPherson, The New York Times Book Review). It went on to win the 2006 Lincoln Prize and the inaugural Book Prize for American History of the New-York Historical Society. It was the basis for the 2012 film, "Lincoln," directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Daniel Day-Lewis; and went on to win two Academy Awards.