Team of Rivals – RD Book Review

A TEAM OF RIVALS – Doris Kearns Goodwin (Pulitzer Prize winner)

If you are interested in leadership, then this is an absolutely fascinating read. From Abraham Lincoln’s early and humble beginnings, to becoming a young lawyer in small town America, then failing to gain election at a local level at his first attempt; he ultimately becomes the sixteenth President of the United States.

The challenges faced by Lincoln and his team along with the decisions made, required such strength of courage, committment and fortitude that would profoundly change the course of a nation. The abolition of slavery that lead to the American civil war, along with the personal suffering he experienced over his lifetime including the death of his first fiancee in his earlier days; the death of his twelve year old son during the war years which sent his wife into a life of depression.

The level of responsibility and pressure that Lincoln must have endured is hard to imagine. As the civil war came to an end in the early stages of his second Presidential term only to be assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. 

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At around 750 pages it’s not for the light reader, but for me it’s one of the most enthralling and fascinating history books I’ve read.

RD

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