He received Pulitzer Prizes in biography for both Charles Sumner and Look Homeward. Lincoln was a man of sorrows and also a lifelong champion of what he called cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason.
Published by Simon & Schuster, Incorporated, 2000. Some recent works includes Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, Lincoln, and Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, 1996. Lincoln at Home : Two Glimpses of Abraham Lincolns Family Life. Much of Donald's work involves exploring and interpreting the American Civil War and its central figure, Abraham Lincoln. Warren Professor of American History, chair of the graduate program in American civilization, and professor emeritus at Harvard University. A masterful work by Pulitzer Prizewinning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency. Lincoln had to negotiate very difficult political and constitutional terrain as he waged the Civil War: issues of executive authority, constitutional powers and their limitations, and the nature of civil liberties during war constantly bedeviled him. Donald has been an associate professor of history at Smith College and a professor of history at Columbia University Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University. The book reveals Lincoln as an intensely political, tormented, yet deeply attractive personality. He married Aida DiPace in 1955, they had one child, Bruce Randall. A biography of Abraham Lincoln which draws together all the strands of his life, and includes much new material. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and historian David Herbert Donald was born Octoin Goodman, Miss.
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