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Schwartz my first encounter with david herbert donald came as a graduate student setting up the lincoln room at the university of illinois at urbanachampaign. Yet coupled with that fatalism was an unbounded ambition that drove him to take enormous political risks and enabled him to overcome repeated defeats. David herbert donalds untimely death on may 17, 2009, gives us an opportunity to reflect on the virtues of one of the most accomplished historians of his generation. Lincoln book by david herbert donald official publisher. He has twice won the pulitzer prize, for charles sumner and the coming of.
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