David Herbert Donald, a leading American historian of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of the abolitionist statesman Charles Sumner and the novelist Thomas Wolfe, died Sunday in Boston. He was 88 and lived in Lincoln, Mass.; Wellfleet, Mass.; and Key West, Fla.
Mr. Donald won two Pulizter Prizes for his books.
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Books
Books by David Herbert Donald
Lincoln
Why the North Won the Civil War
Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
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I enjoyed his work Lincoln. As a Civil War buff, I will miss him.