David Herbert Donald

David Herbert Donald

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.

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Lincoln
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Lincoln
  • By: David Herbert Donald
  • Narrator: Dick Estell
  • Length: 30 hours 21 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (44003 ratings)
(44003 ratings)
A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky... Read more

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