Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin stories: 1 news summaries
ANALYSIS

History of Lincoln Inspires Obama's 'Team of Rivals'

Doris Kearns Goodwin's tome provides unexpected insight into next administration

Nov 17, 08 2:55 PM CST
(Newser) - “Team of rivals” is the post-campaign buzzphrase, Graeme Allister writes in the Guardian, replacing the lipsticked pigs and pitbulls. The term refers to Barack Obama’s strategy of filling Cabinet positions with Republicans and political enemies (ie, Hillary Clinton), and comes from a 2005 book by Doris Kearns Goodwin... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Cabinet • Abraham Lincoln • Democratic nomination • Obama administration • President Obama • Doris Kearns Goodwin • team of rivals

1 Story


from our news partners