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“THE MOST RICHLY DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE CIVIL WAR PRESIDENCY TO APPEAR IN MANY YEARS”: FIRST EDITION TEAM OF RIVALS, SIGNED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN

GOODWIN, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals. The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005). Octavo, original brown and black paper boards, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. 

First trade edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s acclaimed biography of Lincoln, signed on the title page in the year of publication by her, “Doris Kearns Goodwin 11/20/05.”

“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” (New York Times). “Splendid, beautifully written… Goodwin has brilliantly woven scores of contemporary accounts… into a fluid narrative… This is the most richly detailed account of the Civil War presidency to appear in many years” (Los Angeles Times). Basis for Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film, Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, which won two Academy Awards. Issued same year as an Easton Press signed limited edition, no priority established.

A fine copy.