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Also by David Herbert Donald:

We Are Lincoln Men, November 2004
Paperback (reprint)
Look Homeward, February 2003
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Lincoln, November 1996
Paperback

LINCOLN
By: David Herbert Donald

Simon & Schuster
November 1996
On Sale: November 5, 1996
720 pages
ISBN: 068482535X
EAN: 9780684825359
Paperback
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Non-Fiction History

David Herbert Donald's Lincoln is a stunningly original portrait of 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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