Lincoln

“In this beautifully rendered and stunningly original portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln emerges as both a great leader  and an imperfect human being – a vigorous man beset by personal and political troubles who weathered them all to become America’s most revered president. Drawing extensively from Lincoln’s personal papers and from newly discovered records of Lincoln’s legal practice, David Herbert Donald brilliantly re-creates the president’s rise from obscurity to the heights of political glory. …”