BOMC split main selection History Book Club main selection. through its greatest crisis and established the matrix for successful, if imperfect, reunification. This item: Lincoln by David Herbert Donald Paperback 1,700.00 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Paperback 332.00 Special offers and product promotions 5 Instant Discount up to INR 250 on HSBC Cashback Card Credit Card Transactions. Instead, it was Lincoln's ability to respond to events and actions that brought the U.S. David Donald has given us a magnificent account of how a country lawyer. Although the information available to Lincoln was often significantly limited by modern standards, bold plans based on a priori reasoning were foreign to his thought process. This life of Lincolns friend, law partner, and biographer is such a book. If one approach-or one general-failed, another could be tried. Throughout his life, according to Donald, Lincoln believed his destiny was controlled by some larger force or ``higher power.'' This conviction generated both an underlying fatalism and a pragmatic approach to problem-solving. Donald presents Lincoln's nature as essentially passive. Donald, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished scholar of the Civil War era (Charles Sumner), offers here a provocative reinterpretation of Abraham Lincoln's career and character.
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