How long does it take to read Team of Rivals?
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin takes about 16 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 48 minutes
A long haul
First published 2003. 916 pages, about 251,900 words.
34 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 27 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is a 2005 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, published by Simon & Schuster. The book is a biographical portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and some of the men who served with him in his cabinet from 1861 to 1865. Three of his Cabinet members had previously run against Lincoln in the 1860 election: Attorney General Edward Bates, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase and Secretary of State William H. Seward. The book focuses on Lincoln's mostly successful attempts to reconcile conflicting personalities and political factions on the path to abolition and victory in the American Civil War. Goodwin's sixth book, Team of Rivals was well received by critics and won the 2006 Lincoln Prize and the inaugural Book Prize for American History of the New-York Historical Society. US President Barack Obama cited it as one of his favorite books and was said to have used it as a model for constructing his own cabinet, although he later wrote this was not the reason he chose Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State. In 2012, a Steven Spielberg film based on the book was released to critical acclaim.
Subjects: Union Army, Thirteenth Amendment, assassination of Abraham Lincoln, secretary of war, Emancipation Proclamation, secretary of state
