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I thought Donald was particularly successful at showing Lincoln's transformation from an inexperienced executive to a confident and savvy leader who still retained his folksy charm. It is a long but engaging read as Donald traces Lincoln's life from childhood through his rise as a lawyer and leader in the Illinois Republican party to his election as president and assassination. "An excellent biography that relies as much as possible in Lincoln's own words. Makes the decisions that preserved the Union and shaped modern America. Was both a master of ambiguity and expediency and a great moral leader, as he Political biography, Lincoln seats us behind the desk of a president who He also depicts a man who wasīasically passive by nature yet ambitious enough to take enormous risks and Growth enabled one of the least experienced men ever elected to high office toīecome a giant in the annals of American politics. He reveals the development of theįuture president’s character and shows how Lincoln’s enormous capacity for Origins to the pinnacle of the presidency. Soaring rhetoric gave meaning to that agonizing struggle for nationhood andĭonald spent fifty years studying Lincoln, tracing his rise from humble Political acumen steered the Union to victory in the Civil War and of how his History and biography-a masterly account of how one man’s extraordinary Prize–winning biographer David Herbert Donald offers a new classic in American

In the most troubled of times, here was a man who led the country out of slavery and preserved a shattered Union-in short, one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.ĭavid Herbert Donald is the author of "Lincoln, " which won the prestigious Lincoln Prize and was on the "New York Times" bestseller list for fourteen weeks, and of "Lincoln at Home." He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, for "Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, " and for "Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe." He is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and of American Civilization Emeritus at Harvard University and resides in Lincoln, Massachusetts.In the bestselling tradition of Truman, two-time Pulitzer Donald goes beyond biography, illuminating the gradual development of Lincoln's character, chronicling his tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared for the presidency to become a great moral leader. Is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln's life and presidency.ĭonald brilliantly depicts Lincoln's gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war.

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald,