“I am grateful for the contacts we had afterward, and for his remarkable ability to help Americans understand our past and how it shapes who we are today.” “During the 1996 campaign, I found his magnificent biography, ‘Lincoln,’ inspiring and encouraging,” Clinton said Tuesday. Years later, when customers at the Lincoln Memorial bookstore would ask for a good biography, Donald’s book was recommended. “Lincoln,” a single-volume biography of the president, came out in 1996 and became so popular that presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Bob Dole both claimed they were reading it. His books included “Lincoln at Home,” a study of his family life, and “We Are Lincoln Men,” essays about Lincoln’s friends and associates. “He was a very hard worker, and his family, his writing and teaching were his life in that order,” she said.ĭonald published his first Lincoln book in the late 1940s and kept at it for more than 50 years, going back on repeated vows to move on to another subject. He was working on a “character study” of John Quincy Adams at his death, his wife said. Donald’s stature was so high among Lincoln experts that an award was even named after him, the David Herbert Donald Prize for “excellence in Lincoln studies.”
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