January 2009 non-fiction title - Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian, finished this work in 2005. With our new president being a great fan of Abraham Lincoln, I thought that we could learn a lot from this look back at an aspect of his administration that was not as well known by most students of history. It is as much a study of personalities and of the interaction of individuals as it is of the concept of leadership itself. Choose one chapter on part I, and then proceed to part II, since this is such a long book for a book club. Upon request, we can re-visit this in the summer.