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   Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln, released in 2012, was directly inspired by and adapted in part from Team of Rivals.

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   Over 900 pages long, Goodwin's 2005 biography draws extensively from previously unpublished letters and diaries to reconstruct the complex relationships between Lincoln and his cabinet members.

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   The 2005 biography extensively details how Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin Stanton initially despised the president but became his closest confidant by 1864.

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   Lincoln's cabinet included three men who had competed against him in the 1860 Republican presidential nomination: William Seward, Salmon Chase, and Edward Bates.

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   Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals was published in 2005 and won the Lincoln Prize in 2006.

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