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Lincoln the Listless? // New Biography Paints Abe as a Passive President
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Lincoln
By David Herbert Donald. Simon & Schuster. $35.
It has been more than four decades since the last important
one-volume Lincoln biography, by Benjamin F. Thomas, during which
Lincoln scholarship has uncovered much of interest about our greatest
president.
Writing the life of Abraham Lincoln in a single volume is a
daunting challenge. That life encompasses not merely the four most
crowded and dramatic years in American history - those of the Civil
War - but also a long prelimina...
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Lincoln.
The Nation
; David Herbert Donald, Simon and Schuster. 714 pp $35 Every generation of American reinvents Abraham Lincoln in its own image. Politicians fro conservatives to communists, civil rights activists to Dixiecrats have claimed him as their own. Self-made man, frontier hero, liberator of the slaves--he
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Lincoln historian admired by peers, presidents and readers
Daily Breeze
; LINCOLN, Mass. -- Historian David Herbert Donald was reading in his back yard one afternoon when he noticed two strangers -- a well- dressed, middle-aged couple -- standing just outside the fence. "I got up and said, 'Is there anything I could to do to help you,' " Donald, a two-time Pulitzer Prize
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A Lincoln portrait artist: Historian achieves fame for advancing Lincoln scholarship
Sunday Gazette-Mail
; LINCOLN, Mass. - Historian David Herbert Donald was reading in his back yard one afternoon when he noticed two strangers - a well- dressed, middle-aged couple - standing just outside the fence. "I got up and said, 'Is there anything I could do to help you Donald, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner,
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A more honest picture of Abe Wilier, livelier Lincoln steps off his pedestal in new biography
The Boston Globe
; LINCOLN -- When David Herbert Donald retired four years ago as a professor of history and American civilization at Harvard, he had some 12,000 books scattered among three offices. He didn't want to give them away just yet, and, besides, he had a major book in the works. So he had a library wing
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LINCOLN'S EMOTIONAL LIFE, ABLY RENDERED
The Boston Globe
; In this season when voters examine presidential candidates, we might take a long, hard look at presidential candidates among their friends. Theodore Roosevelt gravitated toward friends who shared his passion for rough play. He proved to be a better president because of his friend-playmates who
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Lincoln the Listless? // New Biography Paints Abe as a Passive President
Chicago Sun-Times
; Lincoln By David Herbert Donald. Simon & Schuster. $35. It has been more than four decades since the last important one-volume Lincoln biography, by Benjamin F. Thomas, during which Lincoln scholarship has uncovered much of interest about our greatest president. Writing the life of Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln, Clinton, and Vaulting Ambition
The Virginia Quarterly Review
; I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent but only Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other. -Macbeth. I.vii Ambition is a subject more easily described than discussed by political scientists and historians. Scholars of American politics have developed broad theories of
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Beloved and hated, but mostly friendless; Abraham Lincoln kept the nation together, but held his friends at arm's length.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Byline: Gregory M. Lamb Here's a man with real intimacy issues: a father who ignored him, a beloved mother who died when he was only 9, and a childhood with no known close friends. If we have no friends, we have no pleasure, Abraham Lincoln once said, and if we have them, we are sure to lose them,
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Pulitzer Winner Turns Talents to Lincoln
Chicago Sun-Times
; BOSTON Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Herbert Donald began writing a book on Abraham Lincoln with a deadline: He would give himself seven years to deliver the biography of one of the world's most written-about people. That was not a generous allotment; such a task has outlived a number of
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Fighting for Lincoln's Soul
The Virginia Quarterly Review
; ... rare exceptions-most notably, the Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg that bracketed Independence Day in 1863-the war news was burdensome for Lincoln almost until the very end. (In Summer 1864, for example, the fighting went so badly that Lincoln predicted ...
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