David Herbert Donald is the author of We Are Lincoln Men, Lincoln, which won the prestigious Lincoln Prize and was on the New York Times bestseller list for fourteen weeks, and Lincoln at Home. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, for Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, and for Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe. He is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and of American Civilization Emeritus at Harvard University and resides in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Chicago Tribune It's unlikely that anyone today knows more about
Lincoln than David Herbert Donald...."We Are Lincoln Men" bristles
with erudition....This book contains much to entertain a broad
popular audience.
Civil War Times A wise, provocative, and scrupulously judicious
book that...probes insightfully into Lincoln's complex personality
and ponders its impact on the Civil War era.
The New York Times Book Review Engaging...David Herbert Donald
writes about Lincoln with unmatched authority....In short, he has
given us a good book to read. He has also given us a good book to
argue with.
The Washington Post Book World Enlightening...insightful...The
portrait of Lincoln that emerges from the observations of those who
knew him best....Donald writes with clarity and grace.
Chicago Tribune It's unlikely that anyone today knows more
about Lincoln than David Herbert Donald...."We Are Lincoln
Men" bristles with erudition....This book contains much to
entertain a broad popular audience.
Civil War Times A wise, provocative, and scrupulously
judicious book that...probes insightfully into Lincoln's complex
personality and ponders its impact on the Civil War era.
The New York Times Book Review Engaging...David Herbert
Donald writes about Lincoln with unmatched authority....In short,
he has given us a good book to read. He has also given us a good
book to argue with.
The Washington Post Book World
Enlightening...insightful...The portrait of Lincoln that emerges
from the observations of those who knew him best....Donald writes
with clarity and grace.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Donald delivers a highly readable portrait of Lincoln's closest friendships in a volume that nicely complements his preeminent biography of our 16th president. Donald's focus is on six key players: Joshua Speed, William H. Herndon, Orville H. Browning, William H. Seward and the president's private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay. With regard to the young Springfield entrepreneur Speed, Donald astutely dismantles the so-called "evidence" for a homoerotic relationship, pointing out that during the four years Speed and Lincoln shared a room and a bed (then a common practice among budget-conscious young men) both were quite energetically involved in quests for wives. Interestingly, no less than three of the six friends delineated by Donald also became Lincoln's biographers. William H. Herndon-about whom Donald has previously written a book-started out as Lincoln's law partner in the fall of 1844 and wound up doing vital, sometimes scandalous, sometimes spurious research culminating in a seminal biography published in 1889. The work of Nicolay and Hay was primarily intended to refute much of Herndon's scandalous accounts regarding Lincoln's lineage, frontier romances and unhappy marriage. Perhaps the most complex and informative of Donald's portraits is that of Orville Browning, a longtime Springfield associate and fellow attorney who served briefly as senator from Illinois during Lincoln's first term and whom Lincoln passed over no less than three times when given the opportunity to nominate him to the Supreme Court. Friendship had its limits. Agent, John Taylor Williams. (Nov. 10) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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