“The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.”
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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
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