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100 1 $aDonald, David Herbert,$d1920-2009.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79017984
245 10 $aLincoln /$cDavid Herbert Donald.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bSimon & Schuster,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $a714 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [600]-686) and index.
520 $aThis fully rounded biography of America's sixteenth President is the product of Donald's half-century of study of Lincoln and his times. In preparing it, Donald has drawn more extensively than any previous writer on Lincoln's personal papers and those of his contemporaries, and he has taken full advantage of the voluminous newly discovered records of Lincoln's legal practice.
520 8 $aHe presents his findings with the same literary skill and psychological understanding exhibited in his previous biographies, which have received two Pulitzer Prizes.
520 8 $aMuch more than a political biography, Donald's Lincoln reveals the development of the future President's character and shows how his private life helped to shape his public career. In Donald's skillful hands, Lincoln emerges as a youthful, vigorous President. One of the youngest men ever to occupy the White House, he was also the husband of an even younger wife and the father of boisterous children.
520 8 $aWe witness how Lincoln's absorption with politics disrupted his family life, and how his often tumultuous marriage affected his political career. And we see a man renowned for his storytelling and his often sidesplitting humor lapse into the periods of deep melancholy to which he was prone, not only during the dark days of the Civil War but throughout his life.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aDonald's strikingly original portrait of Lincoln depicts a man who was basically passive by nature, who confessed that he did not control events but events had controlled him. Yet coupled with that fatalism was an unbounded ambition that drove him to take enormous political risks and enabled him to overcome repeated defeats.
520 8 $aDonald shows that Lincoln was a master of ambiguity and expediency - but he also stresses that Lincoln was a great moral leader, inflexibly opposed to slavery and absolutely committed to preserving the Union.
600 10 $aLincoln, Abraham,$d1809-1865.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79006779
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85106470
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