Midlands State University Library
Image from Google Jackets

Lincoln David Herbert Donald

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London Jonathan Cape 1995Description: 714 pages 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780224042222
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E457.A6256 DON
Contents:
Cover; Dedication; Epigraph; Maps; Preface; Chapter One: Annals of the Poor; Chapter Two: A Piece of Floating Driftwood; Chapter Three: Cold, Calculating, Unimpassioned Reason; Chapter Four: Always a Whig; Chapter Five: Lone Star of Illinois; Chapter Six: At the Head of his Profession in This State; Chapter Seven: There Are No Whigs; Chapter Eight: A House Divided; Chapter Nine: The Taste Is in My Mouth; Chapter Ten: An Accidental Instrument; Chapter Eleven: A People's Contest; Chapter Twelve: The Bottom Is Out of the Tub; Chapter Thirteen: An Instrument in God's Hands Chapter Fourteen: A Pumpkin in Each End of My BagChapter Fifteen: What Will the Country Say!; Chapter Sixteen: A New Birth of Freedom; Chapter Seventeen: The Greatest Question Ever Presented to Practical Statesmanship; Chapter Eighteen: It Was Not Best to Swap Horses; Chapter Nineteen: I Am Pretty Sure-Footed; Chapter Twenty: With Charity for All; Chapter Twenty-One: I Will Take Care of Myself; Photographs; Lincoln's Law Partners; Lincoln's Political Advisers; Rivals in the Great Debates of 1858; Two Cabinet Rivals; Four Generals who Caused Lincoln Problems; President Lincoln and His Sons Lincoln Receives a Delegation of Plains IndiansLincoln's Office in the White House; Lincoln on McClellan; Three Republican Radicals who Pushed Lincoln Toward Emancipation; Two Views of the Emancipation Proclimation; The Presidential Campaign of 1864; Lincoln Enters the City of Richmond, April 4, 1865; Author Bio; Sources and Notes; Index; Footnotes; Preface; Note 1; Copyright
Summary: David Herbert Donald's Lincoln stunningly original portrait of Lincoln's life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln's gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever- expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war. Donald goes beyond biography, illuminating the gradual development of Lincoln's character, chronicling his tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared for the presidency to become a great moral leader. In the most troubled of times, here was a man who led the country out of slavery and preserved a shattered Union -- in short, one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.
Reviews from LibraryThing.com:
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Zvishavane Library Open Shelf E457.A6L56 DON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 147664 Available BK133951

Cover; Dedication; Epigraph; Maps; Preface; Chapter One: Annals of the Poor; Chapter Two: A Piece of Floating Driftwood; Chapter Three: Cold, Calculating, Unimpassioned Reason; Chapter Four: Always a Whig; Chapter Five: Lone Star of Illinois; Chapter Six: At the Head of his Profession in This State; Chapter Seven: There Are No Whigs; Chapter Eight: A House Divided; Chapter Nine: The Taste Is in My Mouth; Chapter Ten: An Accidental Instrument; Chapter Eleven: A People's Contest; Chapter Twelve: The Bottom Is Out of the Tub; Chapter Thirteen: An Instrument in God's Hands Chapter Fourteen: A Pumpkin in Each End of My BagChapter Fifteen: What Will the Country Say!; Chapter Sixteen: A New Birth of Freedom; Chapter Seventeen: The Greatest Question Ever Presented to Practical Statesmanship; Chapter Eighteen: It Was Not Best to Swap Horses; Chapter Nineteen: I Am Pretty Sure-Footed; Chapter Twenty: With Charity for All; Chapter Twenty-One: I Will Take Care of Myself; Photographs; Lincoln's Law Partners; Lincoln's Political Advisers; Rivals in the Great Debates of 1858; Two Cabinet Rivals; Four Generals who Caused Lincoln Problems; President Lincoln and His Sons Lincoln Receives a Delegation of Plains IndiansLincoln's Office in the White House; Lincoln on McClellan; Three Republican Radicals who Pushed Lincoln Toward Emancipation; Two Views of the Emancipation Proclimation; The Presidential Campaign of 1864; Lincoln Enters the City of Richmond, April 4, 1865; Author Bio; Sources and Notes; Index; Footnotes; Preface; Note 1; Copyright

David Herbert Donald's Lincoln stunningly original portrait of Lincoln's life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln's gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever- expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war. Donald goes beyond biography, illuminating the gradual development of Lincoln's character, chronicling his tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared for the presidency to become a great moral leader. In the most troubled of times, here was a man who led the country out of slavery and preserved a shattered Union -- in short, one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.