Lincoln

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Frank Merli's copy, with his ink underlining and marginalia, pages dog-eared. Jacket stained. 1995 Hard Cover. 714 pp. Destined to become a classic in American history and biography, David Herbert Donald's Lincoln is a masterly account of how one man's extraordinary political acumen steered the Union to victory in the Civil War, and of how his soaring rhetoric gave meaning to that agonizing struggle for nationhood and equality. 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.