Lincoln

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A grand work—the Lincoln biography for this generation.”
—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

I
n this beautifully rendered and stunningly original portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln emerges as both a great leader and an imperfect human being—a vigorous man beset by personal and political troubles who weathered them all to become America’s most revered president. Drawing extensively from Lincoln’s personal papers and from newly discovered records of Lincoln’s legal practice, David Herbert Donald brilliantly re-creates the president’s rise from obscurity to the heights of political glory. He explains how Lincoln’s personal and public lives adversely affected each other, how the president felt events were beyond his control, and how, despite everything, this inexperienced and ill-prepared man grew into a chief executive of extraordinary political acumen and moral greatness. Like Donald’s other two Pulitzer Prize–winning biographies,
Lincoln
is destined to become a classic of its kind.

“
Lincoln
immediately takes its place among the best of the genre, and it is unlikely that it will be surpassed in elegance, incisiveness and originality in this century. . . . A book of investigative tenacity, interpretive boldness and almost acrobatic balance.”
—Harold Holzer,
Chicago Tribune

“Eagerly awaited,
Lincoln
fulfills expectations. Donald writes with lucidity and elegance.”
—James M. McPherson,
The Atlantic Monthly

“A one-volume study of Lincoln’s life that will augment and replace the previous modern standards by Benjamin Thomas (1953) and Stephen Oates (1977). Donald’s
Lincoln
is a scholarly achievement.”
—David W. Blight,
Los Angeles Times

Cover design by David Ter-Avanesyan
Cover photograph © The Granger Collection, New York
Author photograph by David Schaefar
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