“At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.”
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David Herbert Donald
David Herbert Donald was an American historian renowned for his work on Thomas Jefferson. His book 'Jefferson: The Art of Power' won the Pulitzer Prize. more