Donald's "Lincoln" is so lucid and richly researched, so careful and compelling, that it is hard to imagine a more satisfying life of our most admired and least understood President, at least for the foreseeable future. He cannot expect Lincoln to belong to him the way Herndon does, of course no biography of the 16th President can ever be definitive each new generation will insist on redefining him, just as all its predecessors have.
Now, nearly half a century later, after writing, editing or collaborating on 15 more volumes and winning two Pulitzer Prizes for biography, he has produced a life of Lincoln himself. $35.ĭAVID HERBERT DONALD began his distinguished career in 1948 with "Lincoln's Herndon," a life of Abraham Lincoln's law partner and early biographer, William Herndon, so comprehensive - and so entertaining - that no one has ever bothered to write Herndon up again.
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