David Herbert Donald's Books
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We Are Lincoln MenIn this brilliant and illuminating portrait of our sixteenth president, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald examines the significance...Read More
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Lincoln At HomeAs Lincoln led the nation into the Civil War, managing the Union war effort, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, winning reelection in 1864, and...Read More
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Los Angeles Chronicle, August 10, 2009
...record on the life and times of the first Republican president of the United States was written by David Herbert Donald. Professor D.H. Donald was the Professor Emeritus of American History and American Civilization at Harvard University. He has written...
Louisville Courier-Journal, July 4, 2009
...care and craft that it stands alone as the most important single biography of Lincoln since the late David Herbert Donald's Lincoln , published 13 years ago. This is not to denigrate the many fine works on Lincoln we are reading during this bicentennial....
SignOn San Diego, May 25, 2009
...David Herbert Donald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War and American South whose expertise on Abraham Lincoln brought him a wide general audience and reverence from his peers, died...
Lincoln Journal, May 21, 2009
... Tools: Lincoln - Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner David Herbert Donald, 88, of Lincoln, died on May 17, 2009 in Boston, MA at Beth Israel Medical Center. He was the husband of Aida (DiPace) Donald and the father of...
Journal-Gazette, May 21, 2009
...NEW YORK David Herbert Donald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War and American South whose expertise on Abraham Lincoln brought him a wide general audience and reverence from his peers, has...
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 21, 2009
...David Herbert Donald, 88, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War and American South whose expertise on Abraham Lincoln brought him a wide general audience and reverence from his peers...
History News Network, May 19, 2009
...All of this explains why it was a shock to hear that Donald died suddenly this past Sunday. David Herbert Donald faced a formidable obstacle as a dissertation adviser. We his students knew we could never equal him. He was so dedicated, intelligent, and...
Washington Post, May 19, 2009
...LINCOLN, Mass. -- David Herbert Donald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War and American South whose expertise on Abraham Lincoln brought him a wide general audience and reverence from his peers, has...
New York Times, May 19, 2009
...Mr. Donald was a historian of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of the abolitionist statesman Charles Sumner and the novelist Thomas Wolfe. ...
National Post, April 16, 2009
...Lee Miller, the aforementioned Lincoln man, recounts a list of unlikely Lincoln books once compiled by the historian David Herbert Donald. Readerville talks about the speculation surrounding Blockbuster novel the Kite Runner is apparently one of the...
New York Times, April 16, 2009
...Lee Miller, the aforementioned Lincoln man, recounts a list of unlikely Lincoln books once compiled by the historian David Herbert Donald. In addition to the Caterpillar book, there was Abraham Lincoln as a Potential Lion (based on a talk to the Lions...
USA Today, February 13, 2009
...open himself to the spiritual scrutiny often expected of church members. 'He was a very private man,' biographer David Herbert Donald said. 'And not likely to get up in front of congregation and say, 'Let me recite the sins I have committed,''...
Newsday, February 8, 2009
...such as Richard Hofstadter (who addresses the issue of 'Abraham Lincoln and the Self-made Myth') to biographers like David Herbert Donald (whose essay 'A Strange, Friendless, Uneducated, Penniless Boy' examines the curious lack of close friendships in...
Cleveland Live, February 8, 2009
...by Ronald C. White Jr., a fellow of California's Huntington Library. Some have already compared it to David Herbert Donald's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of 1995, viewed by many authorities as the best one-volume biography of Lincoln ever written. White...
Columbus Dispatch, January 25, 2009
...assassination, Walt Whitman's achingly beautiful O Captain! My Captain! A Lincoln bibliography in 1939, according to historian David Herbert Donald, ran to 1,079 pages -- and, after that, 'The experts lost count.' Today, we offer short lists of books,...
The Book Bench, September 10, 2009
...books. Senator Preston Brooks, in the Pulitzer Prize-winning “ Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War ,” by David Herbert Donald. In May, 1856, Charles Sumner, a Democratic abolitionist senator from Massachusetts, gave a speech in the...
ricklibrarian, August 28, 2009
...When people say "biography," many think about big books, such as Lincoln by David Herbert Donald or John Adams by David McCullough. Readers of biography, however, do not always have to devote days or weeks to big books to get the pleasure of learning...
LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News, May 19, 2009
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NPR Topics: People & Places, May 19, 2009
...The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian had a wide audience and the reverence of his peers. He was 88. A professor emeritus at Harvard University, he won Pulitzer Prizes for biographies of abolitionist Charles Sumner and novelist Thomas Wolfe, but his many...
Twitter / jdickerson, May 19, 2009
...RT @ ktumulty : R.I.P. David Herbert Donald, whose Lincoln biography was one of the best books I've ever read. http://bit.ly/dPsDl Amen to that 7:11 AM May 19th from TweetDeck jdickerson John...
Blogcritics, February 14, 2009
...reading for information and comments on this article, and add some feedback of your own! Buy from Lincoln David Herbert Donald Book, Writer Gary Moore Reloads Abraham Lincoln Published: February 14, 2009 Type: Interview Section: Politics Filed Under:...
CAFFEINATED POLITICS, February 12, 2009
...are the best way to honor him. On my shelves are a raft of books about this man, with David Herbert Donald’s, “Lincoln”, being perhaps my favorite. But there is also the classic “Lincoln” by William Herndon, Abe’s law partner, though...
