Abraham Lincoln. Hildegard von Bingen. Alfred Nobel
Menschen die die Welt Bewegten
David Herbert Donald Bücher
David Herbert Donald war ein herausragender Historiker, der sich auf den Bürgerkrieg, die Reconstruction und den amerikanischen Süden spezialisierte. Seine akademische Strenge, geschärft durch Studien der Geschichte und Soziologie sowie eine Promotion unter der Leitung eines führenden Lincoln-Gelehrten, prägte seinen akribischen Ansatz zur historischen Forschung. Donald widmete sich besonders der Biografie und schuf aufschlussreiche Porträts bedeutender amerikanischer Persönlichkeiten. Sein umfangreiches Werk, das mit zahlreichen Auszeichnungen bedacht wurde, beeinflusste maßgeblich das Verständnis entscheidender Epochen der amerikanischen Geschichte.
A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war. Donald goes beyond biography, illuminating the gradual development of Lincoln’s character, chronicling his tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared for the presidency to become a great moral leader. In the most troubled of times, here was a man who led the country out of slavery and preserved a shattered Union—in short, one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.
Look Homeward
A Life of Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe was a writer who famously spewed out words upon the page in endless streams, attempting to achieve The Great American Novel by putting his own life on paper. He wrote four massive novels, combining passages of over-the-top bad writing with some of the most beautiful prose ever committed to paper. His editors Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell became almost as famous as Wolfe for their Herculean efforts in getting his titanic manuscripts into publishable form. Look Homeward, Angel (1929), Of Time and the River (1935), and his two posthumously published works, The Web and the Rock (1939) and You Can't Go Home Again (1940) are classics of American literature, though today entirely unfashionable. Harvard historian David Herbert Donald won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for this appreciative biography of the genius of purple prose.
