The Puliter-Prize winning classic and national bestseller returns! In this brilliant biography—a Pulitzer Prize—winning national bestseller—David Herbert Donald, Harvard professor emeritus, traces Sumner's life as the nation careens toward civil war. In a period when senators often exercised more influence than presidents, Senator Charles Sumner was one of the most powerful forces in the American government and remains one of the most controversial figures in American history. His uncompromising moral standards made him a lightning rod in an era fraught with conflict. Sumner's fight to end slavery made him a hero in the North and stirred outrage in the South. In what has been called the first blow of the Civil War, he was physically attacked by a colleague on the Senate floor. Unwavering and arrogant, Sumner refused to abandon the moral high ground, even if doing so meant the onslaught of the nation's most destructive war. He used his office and influence to transform the United States during the most contentious and violent period in the nation's history. Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War presents a remarkably different view of our bloodiest war through an insightful reevaluation of the man who stood at its center. "A truly perceptive study." American Heritage "Few books can be recommended wholeheartedly to the specialist and the general reader alike. This one can." New York Times Book Review "[Full of] Donald's unparalleled knowledge and provocative interpretations." James M. McPherson, New York Times Book Review

A history of the sixteenth president's political rise, administration, and death as reported by the nation's then-foremost paper of record includes coverage of such major events as his campaign, the Gettysburg Address and Emancipation Proclamation, and his assassination, in a volume complemented by additional historical text by two eminent Lincoln historians.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer offers a definitive full-length biography of Abraham Lincoln, drawing extensively on Lincoln's personal papers and legal writings to present a compelling, original portrait. Read by James Naughton. Book available.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln offers a new perspective on the private life of the Civil War president through an examination of his few friendships and close associations, which were marked by estrangements in the face of political differences. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Based on the papers of the Wolfe Estate, this biography reveals for the first time the personal life of the major American literary figure, Thomas Wolfe, and examines his relations with his editors, literary agents, and contemporary writers

Looks at the political forces, especially within the Republican Party, which shaped the South following the Civil War

A revised edition of the author's acclaimed biography of Lincoln and the Civil War era explores the role of Abraham Lincoln in nineteenth-century American history and provides two new essays on Lincoln's education and on his complex, frequently conflicting relationship to the rule of law. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

A Lincoln biographer provides readers with a intimate portrait of the Lincoln family in the White House, from their less-than-spectacular entrance to that fateful night at Ford's Theater. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Evidently this book describes facts about Lincoln's domestic life, his attitudes, patterns of behavior, mood, etc.

Product Description: In this classic exploration of the Confederacy’s defeat in the Civil War, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald and author of Lincoln assembles insightful and probing essays from six of America’s most distinguished historians...read more

Recounts, in words and drawings, the experiences of a private in a Civil War regiment that saw action in Virginia

Offers a profile of Lincoln's law partner and biographer, and recounts Herndon's struggles to publish the biography

Recounts the sectional controversies that occurred during the Jacksonian Era and the Populist Period and their effects on our economic organization, race relations, literary history, and social structure