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Professor of American History and American Civilization Emeritus David H. Donald is a Lincoln man through and through. He takes his place among the ranks of thousands of Lincoln admirers ranging from his historical contemporaries to temporally distant scholars and aficionados...
...writer who has devoted much of his work to Lincoln, it should come as no surprise that Donald’s latest book covers him as well. However, Donald makes a daring move in historical biography by profiling the men behind the man. We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and his Friends, recently released in paperback, analyzes six key friendships in Lincoln’s life by blending psychoanalytic theory with historical fact...
Inspired by his late friend Eudora Welty’s anthology The Norton Book of Friendship, Donald brings psychological and philosophical literature on friendship together with primary sources culled over his prolific career as a Lincoln scholar...
...result is a kind of retrospective psychoanalytic profile of the 16th president. One can almost imagine a somber, supine Lincoln stretched out on a velvety couch, spewing his recollections and desires to Professor Donald, the self-effacing therapist who probes the depths of his patient’s psyche...
Donald, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln, describes Lincoln as a solitary figure, “a very lonesome man who had only one very close friend in his lifetime.” But with We Are Lincoln Men Donald thought anew about a controversial set of questions of personal character, romance, and political maneuvering...