Article: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.(Book Review)

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. By Doris Kearns Goodwin. Simon & Schuster, 944 pp., $35.00.

TEAM OF RIVALS enjoys a first printing of 400,000 hardcover copies, it is the featured selection of two prominent book clubs, and its film rights have been assigned to Steven Spielberg.

Somewhere in all that present and anticipated ballyhoo lies a major source of this book's central problem. Goodwin undoubtedly wanted her Lincoln book to be both a well-executed popular success and an original contribution to scholarship.

Some outstanding authors have had the good fortune to produce brilliant history that also scored with the ...

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