"At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he……" — David Herbert Donald
"At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago."
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David Herbert Donald
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The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that…
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In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to…
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Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared…
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Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter,…
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I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
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Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
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I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he…
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The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in…
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I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
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Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a…
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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he…
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If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
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