Abraham Lincoln and His Friends
Simon and Schuster
November 2004
On Sale: October 26, 2004
288 pages
ISBN: 0743254708
EAN: 9780743254700
Paperback (reprint)
$14.00
Non-Fiction Biography
In this brilliant and illuminating portrait of our
sixteenth president, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David
Herbert Donald examines the significance of friendship in
Abraham Lincoln's life and the role it played in shaping his
career and his presidency. Though Lincoln had hundreds of
acquaintances and dozens of admirers, he had almost no
intimate friends. Behind his mask of affability and endless
stream of humorous anecdotes, he maintained an inviolate
reserve that only a few were ever able to penetrate. Professor Donald's remarkable book offers a fresh way of
looking at Abraham Lincoln, both as a man who needed
friendship and as a leader who understood the importance of
friendship in the management of men. Donald penetrates
Lincoln's mysterious reserve to offer a new picture of the
president's inner life and to explain his unsurpassed
political skills.
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