Donald writes with lucidity and elegance.", Harold HolzerChicago Tribune"Lincolnimmediately takes its place among the best of the genre, and it is unlikely that it will be surpassed in elegance, incisiveness and originality in this century.
McPhersonThe Atlantic Monthly"Eagerly awaited,Lincolnfulfills expectations. Donald writes with lucidity and elegance.", James M. McPherson The Atlantic Monthly "Eagerly awaited, Lincoln fulfills expectations. Donald's Lincoln is a scholarly achievement.", James M. Blight Los Angeles Times "A one-volume study of Lincoln's life that will augment and replace the previous modern standards by Benjamin Thomas (1953) and Stephen Oates (1977). Donald'sLincolnis a scholarly achievement.", David W. BlightLos Angeles Times"A one-volume study of Lincoln's life that will augment and replace the previous modern standards by Benjamin Thomas (1953) and Stephen Oates (1977). Donald's Lincoln is a scholarly achievement.", David W.
He received Pulitzer Prizes in biography for both Charles Sumner and Look Homeward.David W. Some recent works includes Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, Lincoln, and Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, 1996. Much of Donald's work involves exploring and interpreting the American Civil War and its central figure, Abraham Lincoln. Warren Professor of American History, chair of the graduate program in American civilization, and professor emeritus at Harvard University. Donald has been an associate professor of history at Smith College and a professor of history at Columbia University Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University. He married Aida DiPace in 1955, they had one child, Bruce Randall. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and historian David Herbert Donald was born Octoin Goodman, Miss.
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