Long considered the standard text in the field, The Civil War and Reconstruction―originally written by James G. Randall and revised by David Donald―is now available in a thoroughly revised new edition prepared by David Donald, Jean H. Baker, and Michael F. Holt.

The Civil War and Reconstruction

History

David Herbert Donald

Jean Harvey Baker

Michael F. Holt

Americas

W.W.Norton&Company

Inside Lincoln's Cabinet

Quality Resources

The Great Republic: A history of the American people

Gordon S. Wood

David B. Davis

John Lovell Thomas

Robert E. Wiebe

D.C. Heath

The Great Republic : A History of the American People (Volume Two)

Robert Dallek

D.C. Heath & Co.

Bernard Bailyn, Robert Dallek, David Brion Davis, David Herbert Donald, John L. Thomas, Gordon S. Wood

The Great Republic: A History of the American People: 1

Bernard Bailyn

David Brion Davis

John L. Thomas

Wadsworth Publishing

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham 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.

Lincoln

Biographies & Memoirs

Pimlico

GONE FOR A SOLDIER: The Civil War memoirs of Private Alfred Belland

This fully rounded biography of America's sixteenth President is the product of Donald's half-century of study of Lincoln and his times. In preparing it, Donald has drawn more extensively than any previous writer on Lincoln's personal papers and those of his contemporaries, and he has taken full advantage of the voluminous newly discovered records of Lincoln's legal practice. He presents his findings with the same literary skill and psychological understanding exhibited in his previous biographies, which have received two Pulitzer Prizes. Much more than a political biography, Donald's Lincoln reveals the development of the future President's character and shows how his private life helped to shape his public career. In Donald's skillful hands, Lincoln emerges as a youthful, vigorous President. One of the youngest men ever to occupy the White House, he was also the husband of an even younger wife and the father of boisterous children. We witness how Lincoln's absorption with politics disrupted his family life, and how his often tumultuous marriage affected his political career. And we see a man renowned for his storytelling and his often sidesplitting humor lapse into the periods of deep melancholy to which he was prone, not only during the dark days of the Civil War but throughout his life. Donald's strikingly original portrait of Lincoln depicts a man who was basically passive by nature, who confessed that he did not control events but events had controlled him. Yet coupled with that fatalism was an unbounded ambition that drove him to take enormous political risks and enabled him to overcome repeated defeats. Donald shows that Lincoln was a master of ambiguity and expediency - but he also stresses that Lincoln was a great moral leader, inflexibly opposed to slavery and absolutely committed to preserving the Union.

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"We Are Lincoln Men": Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (Large Print)

RB Large Print

Simon&Schuster

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