“He was not only one of the best historians of our era but he was also one of the classiest and most generous scholars I have ever met,” said Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of “Team of Rivals,” a best-selling Lincoln biography. Kennedy to the first George Bush summoned him for lectures and fellow scholars acknowledged his prominence, especially as Lincoln’s bicentennial was celebrated this year. But his books on Lincoln became his legacy. “He was a wonderful husband and father and he had a spectacular career as a teacher.”Ī professor emeritus at Harvard University, Donald won Pulitzers for biographies of abolitionist Charles Sumner and novelist Thomas Wolfe. “Of course, I am devastated,” said his wife of 54 years. He was 88.ĭonald died of heart failure at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston on Sunday while awaiting heart surgery, said his wife, Aida. NEW YORK – David Herbert Donald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War and American South whose expertise on Abraham Lincoln brought him a wide general audience and reverence from his peers, has died.
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