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David Herbert Donald, a historian and biographer who won two Pulitzer Prizes and was a preeminent scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, died May 17 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston while awaiting heart surgery. He was 88 and lived on Lincoln Road in Lincoln, Mass.

Dr. Donald was a longtime professor of history at Harvard and other universities, but he gained a wide readership beyond the academy with his thorough and gracefully written biographies. He wrote three books about Lincoln, and his 714-page magnum opus from 1995, titled simply "Lincoln," is widely considered ...

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