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Title: LINCOLN by David Herbert Donald, James Naughton ISBN: 0-671-53681-8 Publisher: Audioworks Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (62 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Lincoln
Comment: David Herbert Donald is considered one of the foremost experts on Abraham Lincoln and his era. He is the author of many books, and has received many academic prizes. One can imagine how difficult it must have been for him to write a single volume biography on Lincoln. The results are very satisfying. Lincoln, warts and all, comes alive in Dr. Donald's prose, as do the times in which he lived. His rise to prominence is chronicled, as is his marriage, family life, and law practice. The reader learns about Lincoln's childhood, his political struggles, and the greatness he achieves as president during a turning point in our nation's history. The work is the culmination of a great man, a great scholar, and a great book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The definitive account of our nation's greatest president
Comment: The joy of reading is one that cannot be adequately expressed. The sense of accomplishment along with gaining another life chapter of knowledge is why I continue to seek out great literature. I have had the pleasure of reading several books on President Lincoln, but will always consider this masterpiece the biography to base the life of a complex hero. Along the course of the swiftly reading, eloquently paced chapters, we find our way meandering through a river of Lincoln's experiences. From his humble Kentucky beginnings and following him on the trail to his greatest challenge (No, I do not mean Mary Todd, all together as exasperating as she appears to be), the White House. Donald brings to life the vignettes of Lincoln engaged in playtime with his sons, to pacing frantically through the Telegraph office awaiting word on the recent war events. We tend to think of Lincoln as a stone figure, but we see insecurities and doubt with the fate of the Union resting in his hands, but never surrendering the belief in a Unified nation. After finishing a novel of this caliber, my gratitude must be given to the author for a job well done. I recalled that the dedication was to his children thanking them for "living their entire lives with Lincoln". After absorbing this book, I can't imagine a better person to have lived near.
Rating: 4
Summary: Flawed by to many details and dry narrative but notable read
Comment: With word that later in 2004 several new Lincoln biographies are to be published I again turned to my unread copy of Donald's LINCOLN. It had been highly recommended to me when I mentioned that I had never read a biography of Lincoln. I was told this was one of the best Lincoln Biographies.Overall, David Donald's book is just full of details and is interestingly told from Lincoln's perspective. (What did Lincoln know and what did he do? A real time biography.) I greatly admire Donald's accomplishment and learned a great deal but was disappointed that this is just not an "entertaining" narrative. The writing is dry, without a visual sense or an emotional core. You never feel you're experiencing Lincoln, feeling what he must have felt as he comes across in the narrative as stoically reactive to events while holding on to only one true principle, saving the union. I especially like the first part of the book covering Lincoln's early years up to the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates. But once the Great War takes hold Lincoln is depicted as a man given to compromise and taking the middle ground unable to do anything more than ride the whirlwind of events. (Actually Lincoln said himself that this is the case and it comes so apparent in this narrative.) Lincoln appears here as an uncertain politician and seldom the statesman. This may be true and a bit unsettling to those of us who might want to "worship" the Lincoln as statesman who belongs to the ages. My reading left me with little insight into Lincoln's thinking, and more important without an insight into what he is feeling that I felt distanced from subject. The feeling I came away with was that Lincoln was not really comfortable in his own skin and I was uncomfortable and unsure that this could be true. I recommend Donald's book for its detail, overall insight, but warn that it is a tough read.
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Title: Washington: The Indispensable Man by James Thomas Flexner ISBN: 0316286168 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 22 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: We Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald ISBN: 0743254686 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Truman by David McCullough ISBN: 0671869205 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 14 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: With Malice Toward None : Life of Abraham Lincoln, The by Stephen B. Oates ISBN: 0060924713 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris ISBN: 0812966007 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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