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Symptomatic of the disorder is Donald's latest contribution to the heavily burdened shelves of Lincoln histories. Lincoln at Home is an interesting twist on the Lincoln story, giving us a glimpse into the life Honest Abe and his insane wife, Mary, lived when Lincoln actually occupied the Lincoln bedroom...
Were Lincoln at Home not merely the length of a chapter in one of Donald's previous endeavors, it might be easier to view what he's compiled as worthy of tremendous respect. Yet as the work stands, with 32 pages of continuous text in 18 point font followed by 55 pages of reprinted, often sentence long-letters, Donald has written a chapter, picked out some primary texts for those interested readers, and has called it a book. His historical novella, then, should meet with some harsh criticism, given the little history Donald actually interprets. In exchange for a abridged...
...from a purely practical standpoint, Donald has written the perfect short history of Lincoln for the Harvard student with no time on his hands and a penchant for random tidbits of American history. For late-night drunken trivial pursuit games or simple juice-box facts style knowledge, Lincoln at Home is absolutely a masterpiece...
...Donald regales tales of Lincoln's home life Professor William Gienapp never quite gets to in his behemoth Civil War Core. Some jewels the book includes are tales of Lincoln's young children, Willie and Tad, and their goats, Nanko and Nonnie, who all apparently spent a bit too much time in the East room...
...Donald also gives us yet another reason to be proud of the Harvard name: Robert Lincoln, the eldest Lincoln son, was like so many others, an Exeter-Harvard boy. He might have even been considered a good catch, being quite handsome...