| PRESS RELEASE: Doris Kearns Goodwin Wins 16th Annual Lincoln Prize For Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius Of Abraham Lincoln |
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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