TY - BOOK DB - /z-wcorg/ DP - http://worldcat.org ID - 32589068
LA - English T1 - Lincoln A1 - Donald, David Herbert,, PB -
Simon & Schuster CY - New York Y1 - 1995/// SN - 0684808463
9780684808468 068482535X 9780684825359 AB - "This 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.
He presents his findings with the same literary skill and
psychological understanding exhibited in his previous
biographies, which have received two Pulitzer Prizes... Much
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