David H. Donald
David H. Donald
David Herbert Donaldwas an American historian, best known for his acclaimed 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for earlier works; he published more than 30 books on United States political and literary figures and the history of the American South...
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But I do agree that one of Lincoln's faults was his excessive loyalty to his subordinates - whether in the military or in the civil service.
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The truth is that I already had written a good deal about Lincoln in a peripheral fashion, but I had always stayed away from the main subject.