David Herbert Donald Quotes

A collection of quotes by David Herbert Donald.

David Herbert Donald (1920-2009) was an American historian and biographer. Born in Goodman, Mississippi, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and went on to become a prominent scholar of American history. Donald's most renowned work was his biography of Abraham Lincoln, titled "Lincoln," which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1996. He was widely respected for his meticulous research, insightful analysis, and accessible writing style. Throughout his career, Donald contributed significantly to the study of American political and intellectual history.

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much w

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

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But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely wh

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.

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Relationship

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed hi

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

David Herbert Donald

Leadership

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private a

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

David Herbert Donald

Religion