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Lincoln

David Herbert Donald; James Naughton

A Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer offers a definitive full-length biography of Abraham Lincoln, drawing extensively on Lincoln's personal papers and legal writings to present a compelling, original portrait. Read by James Naughton. Book available.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1996, Softcover - 1996, Hardcover - 1996, 1995, Hardcover - 1995

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We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln And His Friends

David Herbert Donald

We Are Lincoln Men" examines the significance of friendship in Abraham Lincoln's life and the role it played in his presidency. Though Lincoln had hundreds of acquaintances and dozens of admirers, he had almost no intimate friends. Behind his mask of affability and endless stream of humorous anecdotes, he maintained an inviolate reserve that only a few were ever able to penetrate. In this highly original book, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald examines, for the first time, these close friendships and explores their role in shaping Lincoln's career.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2004

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Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe

David Herbert Donald

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1989, Softcover - 1988

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The Civil War and Reconstruction

David Herbert Donald; Jean H. Baker; Michael F. Holt; David Herbert Donald

Long considered the standard text in the field, The Civil War and Reconstruction—originally written by James G. Randall and revised by David Donald—is now available in a thoroughly revised new edition prepared by David Donald, Jean H. Baker, and Michael F. Holt. Maintaining the accuracy and comprehensiveness that distinguished the original, the revised edition incorporates the best new scholarship in the field. Expanded and updated coverage of social and cultural history includes detailed discussions of southern society, slavery and the African-American experience, the experiences of women, and issues of class. The postwar chapters have been reconceived to treat Reconstruction as a national, rather than a regional, problem, exploring the connections between developments in the South and parallel changes in the North.

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Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era

David Herbert Donald

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln biographer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, has revised and updated his classic and influential book on Lincoln and the era he dominated.

When Lincoln Reconsidered was first published it ushered in the process of rethinking the Civil War that continues to this day. In the third edition, David provides two important new essays, on Lincoln's patchy education—which we find was more extensive than even the great man realized—and on Lincoln's complex and conflicted relationship to the rule of law. Together with a new preface and a thoroughly updated bibliographical essay, Lincoln Reconsidered will continue to be a touchstone of Lincoln scholarship for decades to come.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1989, Hardcover - 1956

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Lincoln at Home: Two Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln's Family Life

David Herbert Donald

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Lincoln at Home: 2 Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln's Domestic Life

David Herbert Donald

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Charles Sumner

David Herbert Donald

Charles Sumner (1811-1874), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for two decades, was an ardent abolitionist; a founder of the Republican Party; chairman of the powerful Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1861 to 1871; chief of the Radical Republicans during the Civil War and Reconstruction; Lincoln's friend and, later, Grant's nemesis; as well as an advocate for universal equality, international peace, women's suffrage, and educational and prison reform. This edition combines for the first time Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War and Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man into one monumental biography that brings into brilliant focus the character and impact of one of the most controversial and enduring forces in American history.

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Why the North Won the Civil War

David Herbert Donald; Richard N. Current; T. Harry Williams; David M. Potter; Norman A. Graebner; Henry Steele Commager

Focusing on the political, military, economic, social, and diplomatic reasons behind the Union victory, this collection presents the most complete picture of this key aspect of Civil War studies. In an essay new to this edition, Henry Steele Commager offers a historiographical overview of the collapse of the Confederacy. Richard N. Current describes the economic superiority of the North and shows how the civilian resources of the South were dissipated during the war. T. Harry Williams examines the deficiencies of the Southern military strategy and leadership. Norman A. Graebner discusses the reluctance of France and England to aid the South. David Herbert Donald, in his own essay, reports that excessive Southern emphasis on individual freedom fatally undermined military discipline. And David M. Potter suggests that a lack of political leadership in the South resulted in gross incompetence. And exclusively for this edition, the editor has written a new foreword and completely updated the bibliography to create the most comprehensive and enlightening guide to understanding this fascinating issue.

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Great Republic: A History of the American People

David Herbert Donald; David B. Davis; Robert Dallek; John L. Thomas; Gordon S. Wood

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Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

David Herbert Donald

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Other editions: Softcover - 1981

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Lincoln's Herndon: A Biography

David Herbert Donald

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Liberty and Union

David Herbert Donald

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Other editions: Softcover - 1978