A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.Donald 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. 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. 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.
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David Herbert Donald was a preeminent historian specializing in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the American South. His academic rigor, honed by studies in history and sociology and a PhD under a leading Lincoln scholar, shaped his meticulous approach to historical inquiry. Donald was particularly drawn to biography, crafting insightful portraits of significant American figures. His extensive body of work, recognized with numerous accolades, profoundly influenced the understanding of pivotal eras in American history.
Look Homeward
A Life of Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe was a writer who famously spewed out words upon the page in endless streams, attempting to achieve The Great American Novel by putting his own life on paper. He wrote four massive novels, combining passages of over-the-top bad writing with some of the most beautiful prose ever committed to paper. His editors Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell became almost as famous as Wolfe for their Herculean efforts in getting his titanic manuscripts into publishable form. Look Homeward, Angel (1929), Of Time and the River (1935), and his two posthumously published works, The Web and the Rock (1939) and You Can't Go Home Again (1940) are classics of American literature, though today entirely unfashionable. Harvard historian David Herbert Donald won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for this appreciative biography of the genius of purple prose.
Abraham Lincoln. Hildegard von Bingen. Alfred Nobel
Menschen die die Welt Bewegten
In diesem brillanten und aufschlussreichen Porträt unseres sechszehnten Präsidenten untersucht der zweifache Pulitzer-Preisträger David Herbert Donald die Bedeutung von Freundschaft im Leben von Abraham Lincoln und die Rolle, die sie bei der Gestaltung seiner Karriere und seiner Präsidentschaft spielte. Obwohl Abraham Lincoln Hunderte von Bekannten und Dutzende von Bewunderern hatte, hatte er fast keine engen Freunde. Hinter seiner Maske der Freundlichkeit und dem endlosen Strom humorvoller Anekdoten bewahrte er eine unantastbare Zurückhaltung, die nur wenige jemals durchdringen konnten. Donalds bemerkenswertes Buch bietet eine neue Perspektive auf Abraham Lincoln, sowohl als einen Mann, der Freundschaft benötigte, als auch als einen Führer, der die Bedeutung von Freundschaft im Umgang mit Menschen verstand. Donald dringt in Lincolns geheimnisvolle Zurückhaltung ein, um ein neues Bild von dem inneren Leben des Präsidenten zu vermitteln und seine unübertroffenen politischen Fähigkeiten zu erklären.