![]() ![]() And he depicts a man who was basically passive by nature, yet ambitious enough to take enormous risks and overcome repeated defeats. ![]() He reveals the development of the future president's character and shows how Lincoln's enormous capacity for growth enabled one of the least experienced men ever elected to high office to become a giant in the annals of American politics. ![]() In the best-selling tradition of Truman, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert Donald offers a new classic in American history and biography - a masterly account of how one man's extraordinary political acumen steered the Union to victory in the Civil War, and of how his soaring rhetoric gave meaning to that agonizing struggle for nationhood and equality.ĭonald spent 50 years studying Lincoln, tracing his rise from humble origins to the pinnacle of the presidency. ![]()
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