![]() ![]() ![]() “Lincoln’s Herndon” began as a dissertation and became Donald’s first book, published in 1948.ĭonald’s reputation grew throughout the next few decades as he carefully picked apart the Lincoln myths dear to poets, dreamers and politicians. But he also needed money and found a job working as a research assistant to a leading Lincoln scholar, James Garfield Randall.ĭonald’s mentor encouraged him to write about Lincoln’s law partner, William Herndon. Having grown up in a segregated town, he was interested in race relations and planned to study the post-Civil War era. ![]() He majored in history and sociology at Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss., then went to the University of Illinois for graduate school. His books included “Lincoln,” a single-volume biography of the president published in 1995 “Lincoln at Home,” a study of his family life and “We Are Lincoln Men,” essays about Lincoln’s friends and associates.ĭonald, the grandson of a Union cavalry officer, was born into a farming family in Goodman, Miss., in 1920. ![]() Donald published his first Lincoln book in the late 1940s and kept at it for more than 50 years. ![]()
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