Lincoln (Inscribed Copy)

Donald, David Herbert

ISBN 10: 0684808463 / ISBN 13: 9780684808468

Published by Simon and Schuster, 1995

About this Item

Inscribed copy of this acclaimed one-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Herbert Donald. Inscribed by David Herbert Donald to a previous owner on the front endpaper. The inscription is dated by Donald, and it appears that he had been asked to write a gift inscription.) 714 pages, illustrated. Seventh Printing. Has some light scuffs on the side page edge.

Seller Inventory # 016991

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lincoln (Inscribed Copy)
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684808463
• ISBN 13: 9780684808468
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Destined to become a classic in American history and biography, David Herbert Donald’s Lincoln is 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. This fully rounded biography of America’s sixteenth President is the product of Donald’s half-century of study of Lincoln and his times. In preparing it, Donald has drawn more extensively than any previous writer on Lincoln’s personal papers and those of his contemporaries, and he has taken full advantage of the voluminous newly discovered records of Lincoln’s legal practice. He presents his findings with the same literary skill and psychological understanding exhibited in his previous biographies, which have received two Pulitzer Prizes. Donald brilliantly traces Lincoln’s rise from humble origins in Kentucky to prominent positions in legal and political circles in Illinois, and then to the pinnacle of the presidency. He shows how, in all these roles, Lincoln repeatedly demonstrated his enormous capacity for growth, which enabled one of the least experienced and most poorly prepared men ever elected to high office to become a giant in the annals of American politics. Much more than a political biography, Donald’s Lincoln reveals the development of the future President’s character and shows how his private life helped to shape his public career. Donald’s biography is written from Lincoln’s point of view. Donald seats us behind the President’s desk, where we read the papers and reports he received and wrote, meet the politicians and generals and ordinary citizens who visited his office, and observe him evaluating the evidence before him and making the decisions that shaped modern America.

About the Author

David Herbert Donald is the Charles Warren Professor Emeritus of American History and American Civilization at Harvard University.