- Biographies, Presidents, Présidents, Biographie
The phenomenal national bestseller that is "the Lincoln biography for this generation" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)-now in paperback.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- David Herbert Donald
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 714
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Audio, Simon & Schuster, Touchstone
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743550079
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“Abraham Lincoln was not interested in his ancestry. In his mind he was a self-made man, who had no need to care about his family tree.”
David Herbert Donald was an American historian, best known for his acclaimed 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. - Wikipedia
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