Presidents of the United States - Biography, 19th Century American History - Politics & Government - Presidents, Union - Civil War History, General & Miscellaneous Literary Biography

Lincoln's Herndon

Name: Lincoln's Herndon
Author: David Herbert Donald
ISBN: 9780306803536

by David Herbert Donald

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Overview

Occasionally a book that begins as a work of scholarship becomes a great and profoundly moving human document. This life of Lincoln's friend, law partner and biographer is such a book. It has a two-fold focus: on the "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" days—the days of Lincoln's courting, arguing, and politicking; and on Herndon's long and wracking fight to publish his biography in the face of poverty, drive, and disillusionment, it achieves the impetus and grandeur of tragedy. David Donald has given us a magnificent account of how a country lawyer became a national figure and what happened to the friend he left behind when he became president. An impressive study of mythmakers and mythmaking, this biography of William Henry Herndon, a man intimately connected to movements for abolition of slavery, temperance, religious liberalism, currency reform, and women's rights is also a sweeping picture of America just before, during, and after the Civil War.

Synopsis

"Occasionally a book that begins as a work of scholarship becomes a great and profoundly moving human document. This life of Lincoln's friend, law partner and biographer is such a book. It has a two-fo"

About the Author, David Herbert Donald

One of the nation's most venerated Presidential scholars, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Herbert Donald has illuminated great minds of history from Thomas Wolfe to Abraham Lincoln.