Order this book from Amazon.com Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin New York CIty: Simon & Schuster, 2005 Doris Kearns Goodwin tells the gripping story of how the relatively inexperienced Abraham Lincoln took three of the most cunning politicians in the country, all his former competitors for the Presidency, and welded them into a leadership team that fought and won a divisive civil war.