Lincoln herbert donald5/29/2023 Coverage of the Lincoln Douglas debates of 1858 proves absolutely superb. Equally valuable is the way this book traces Lincoln’s public and private views toward slavery from his childhood through his presidency. White’s synthesis of Lincoln’s complex life is well calibrated and his frequent review of Lincoln’s most notable letters and speeches is interesting and insightful. Numerous maps, charts, illustrations and photographs are embedded throughout the text, and they appear when contextually appropriate rather than being bunched together arbitrarily as is the case with many books. White manages to pack his pages with a significant amount of detail but without losing the big picture or slowing the book’s pace. Consistent with my expectations, this book provided a broad, clear and penetrating review of our sixteenth president.Īlthough this is a lengthy biography (with nearly 700 pages of text and almost 100 pages of notes) it is lucid, free flowing and extremely easy to read. So it is high praise that White’s effort is often described as the best single-volume Lincoln biography since David Herbert Donald’s “Lincoln” was published in 1995. There is certainly no shortage of biographies of Abraham Lincoln. He is currently working on a biography of Ulysses S. He is a graduate of UCLA and Princeton Theological Seminary and is a Visiting Professor of History at UCLA. White is the author of seven other books including two previous books on Lincoln. Lincoln: A Biography” is Ronald White, Jr.‘s 2009 biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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