In Donald's skillful hands, Lincoln emerges as a youthful, vigorous President. 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 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. "This fully rounded biography of America's sixteenth President is the product of Donald's half-century of study of Lincoln and his times.
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