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Simon & Schuster, December 2011
eBook, 720 pages
ISBN-10: 1439126283
ISBN-13: 9781439126288
Description
In the bestselling tradition of Truman, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert Donald offers a new classic in American history and biography -- a masterly account of how one man's extraordinary political acumen steered the Union to victory in the Civil War, and of how his soaring rhetoric gave meaning to that agonizing struggle for nationhood and equality.
Donald spent 50 years studying Lincoln tracing his rise from humble origins to the pinnacle of the presidency. He reveals the development of the future President's character and shows how Lincoln's enormous capacity for growth enabled one of the least experienced men ever elected to high office to become a giant in the annals of American politics. And he depicts a man who was basically passive by nature, yet ambitious enough to take enormous risks and overcome repeated defeats.
Much more than a political biography, Lincoln seats us behind the desk of a President who was both a master of ambiguity and expediency and a great moral leader, as he makes the decisions that preserved the Union and shaped modern America.
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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "A grand work
-- the Lincoln biography for this generation."
Harold Holzer Chicago Tribune "Lincoln immediately takes its place among the best of the genre, and it is unlikely that it will be surpassed in elegance, incisiveness and originality in this century. . . . A book of investigative tenacity, interpretive boldness and almost acrobatic balance."
James M. McPherson The Atlantic Monthly "Eagerly awaited, Lincoln fulfills expectations. Donald writes with lucidity and elegance."
David W. Blight Los Angeles Times "A one-volume study of Lincoln's life that will augment and replace the previous modern standards by Benjamin Thomas (1953) and Stephen Oates (1977). Donald's Lincoln is a scholarly achievement."
Gay People Chronicle, November 10, 2011
...emancipator whose freedom may have extended past the bedroom door. by Mark Segal National Gay History Project Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) may likely be the most studied and researched of the United States presidents. The first reference to him ...
Helium, August 6, 2009
...Lincoln: A Book Review Introduction The historical importance of the book 'Lincoln' by David Herbert Donald lays in the strategy used by its author to re-introduce Abraham Lincoln to readers of ...
Raleigh News & Observer, May 26, 2009
...David Herbert Donald won his two Pulitzer Prizes for biographies of the fiery abolitionist Charles Sumner and the North Carolina novelist Thomas Wolfe. But Donald, who was 88 at his death ...
Lincoln Journal, May 21, 2009
... Tools: Lincoln - Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner David Herbert Donald, 88, of Lincoln, died on May 17, 2009 in Boston, MA at Beth Israel Medical Center. He was the husband of Aida ...
MidWeek, March 4, 2009
...icio.us These past few weeks I?ve been slogging my way through a new biography of Abraham Lincoln: Ronald C. White?s A. Lincoln: A Biography. It?s not my first. I?ve read poet Carl Sandburg?s Depression-era, multi-volume celebratory and ...
Morris County Daily Record, February 11, 2009
...Born 200 years ago Thursday in a log cabin on the Kentucky frontier, Abraham Lincoln today sits deified in a marble temple on the National Mall in Washington. Americans are still trying to figure out how he came such a long way, and what ...
Cleveland Live, February 8, 2009
...More has been written about Abraham Lincoln than any other American historical figure, which seems to deter no one from adding to the flood of information about our 16th and greatest president. The flood is particularly high ...
Christian Science Monitor, January 11, 2009
...[The Monitor occasionally reprints older pieces from its archives. This review originally ran on Nov. 22, 1995]. Lincoln by David Herbert Donald is a masterwork. It stands alone among 135 years of Lincoln biographies. Donald has spent much ...
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Lincoln At HomeAs Lincoln led the nation into the Civil War, managing the Union war effort, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, winning reelection in 1864, and...Read More
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