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...stress of the presidency can be a heavy burden for one man to bear alone. Like Sen. John Kerry, Lincoln was accused of vacillation because he seemed to frequently contradict himself. Donald claims Lincoln created confusion because he would actually test different arguments on different audiences, which could possibly have been curtailed had he had a trusted adviser...
Donald has warm sentiments to his readers. He responds to a dozen or so letters from readers each year, most of whom are average people with a keen interest in Lincoln. Similarly, while at Harvard Donald advised about 65 doctoral students. He says he thinks of them as his children and of their children as his grandchildren...
Donald says he hopes We Are Lincoln Men will prompt his readers to be more self-reflective. “We can better define ourselves in learning what other people do or don’t do,” he says. “Friendship was a problem for Lincoln; maybe it’s a problem in my own life.” In fact, Donald says that he identifies with Lincoln because, like Lincoln, he lacked close childhood friendships...
Donald’s interest in Lincoln dates back to his graduate studies at the University of Illinois, Lincoln’s home from 1830-1861, where Donald reportedly became “ensnared” in Lincoln studies. Through a lifetime’s worth of scholarship, Donald has come to know Abraham Lincoln intimately. Would Donald and Lincoln have been friends if their lives had coincided...
...with him,” Donald said. “But young people are often intolerant, and I was too. His sense of humor, which I found objectionable as a youth, is actually very funny indeed…. So yes, I think I would have become a Lincoln man in my maturity...