Comments on: David Herbert Donald

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:28:59 +0000

Thanks for commenting, Mark. I’m flattered that someone who went to Harvard has read this blog. That makes a total of, hmm…let’s see…add the…carry the…yeah, that looks right…a total of one!

By: Mark Douglass

Mark Douglass — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:24:53 +0000

I took a course on the Civil War from Professor Donald when I was an undergraduate at Harvard. He was a spellbinding lecturer, unlike so many of my other professors.

By: Chris Evans

Chris Evans — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:16:50 +0000

Thanks for posting. Donald really was one of the best Lincoln scholars. It was interesting to read that he was working on a book about John Quincy Adams and his post presidency career.
Chris

By: Theodore P. Savas

Theodore P. Savas — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:31:44 +0000

A great man from the old school has left us. His body of work will long survive him, of that I am confident.

May I recommend to you Larry Tagg’s just-released “The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln: The Story of America’s Most Reviled President” (June 1, 2009)? Larry just signed about 100 copies in our office. His is a very interesting and brilliantly written history of the president as seen by those who were his contemporaries. There is a good interview on our site (or will be shortly) at http://www.savasbeatie.com.

Stay well.

–tps

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:00:33 +0000

I believe Lincoln was primarily reactive. It would take a lot to convince me otherwise.

By: Rea Andrew Redd

Rea Andrew Redd — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:19:18 +0000

My favorite David Donald book: Liberty and Union. Donald’s Lincoln seemed to be more reactive than proactive. I am enjoying Ron White’s Lincoln quite a bit and would put Stephen Oates’ Lincoln among the top three biographies on Lincoln along side Allen Guelzo’s works and White’s books.

By: John Cummings

John Cummings — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:32:43 +0000

I was born in March of 1961, just as the Civil War Centennial was about to pick up steam. I was fortunate to be growing up in a house that brimmed with books, primarily those pertaining to American history. One of the volumes that set in motion my devotion to Civil War history was David Donald’s, “Divided We Fought”. Having such a finely produced collection of images and succinct text was one of the great fortunes of my childhood.

By: R.I.P. David H. Donald | TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog

R.I.P. David H. Donald | TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:37:25 +0000

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