| Team of
Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,
historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s long-awaited and
widely acclaimed biography of the 16th President and his
extraordinary Cabinet, has won the 2006 Lincoln Prize.
Administered annually by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute
at Gettysburg College and endowed by philanthropists Richard
Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, the Lincoln Prize is the nation’s
most generous award in the field of American History.
Ms. Goodwin will be awarded $50,000 and a large bronze
replica of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ bust of Lincoln.
The formal ceremonies marking the 16th annual Lincoln
Prize will take place at a dinner April 6 at the Union
League Club in New York City.
Commented Mr. Gilder and Mr. Lehrman: “Doris
Kearns Goodwin’s bravura study of the Lincoln
administration—not only Lincoln himself but the
remarkably gifted, competitive, indefatigable men who
helped their President to save the Union and end slavery—has
deservedly earned critical praise and popular enthusiasm.
The product of exhaustive research, original interpretation,
and deep insights into the period, the book is further
blessed by its author’s bold narrative style:
dramatic, evocative, and deeply moving. This is a once-in-a-generation
scholarly achievement that has drawn hundreds of thousands
of new readers into history’s greatest story.
We are indeed proud to honor Doris Kearns Goodwin.”
Mr. Gilder and Mr. Lehrman, who are the co-founders
of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History,
created the Lincoln Prize in 1990 together with Professor
Gabor Boritt, Director of the Civil War Institute at
Gettysburg College.
For more information on the Lincoln Prize, visit:
http://www.gettysburg.edu/about/offices/provost/cwi/lincoln_prize/index.dot
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