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We are Lincoln men
Abraham Lincoln and his friends
By Donald, David Herbert
- ISBN
- 978-0-74325-468-7
- Publisher
- New York ; Simon & Schuster, c2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2003
Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Donald (emeritus, Harvard) casts a fascinating portrait of Lincoln and his friends and reconsiders much Lincoln lore in this wholly original study. Borrowing from Aristotle's typology of friendship, the author discovers that Lincoln had many "enjoyable" and "useful" friendships but few "complete" ones wherein he might share hopes, wishes, ideas, fears, and intimacies. By Donald's reckoning, Lincoln was an intensely private man, a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
