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Book Donation to Presidential Library
Prized possessions of a Harvard historian are now the prized possessions of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. The late author of a best selling book on Abraham Lincoln wanted hundreds of his books to be donated to the library, and several of them will go on display starting Tuesday.

David Herbert Donald was the author. He wrote Lincoln in 1995, which many consider to be one of the top Lincoln biographies ever written. Donald also won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for the book Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War (won in 1961), and the other for Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe (won in 1988). Donald's doctorate is from the University of Illinois.

Dave Blanchette, spokesman for the library, says the collection includes six editions of Donald's Lincoln titles, about 30 Civil War, slavery and history titles that the library previously did not have. It also includes books, rarely publicized, that were given as gifts to Donald, and which were inscribed by the givers. Blanchette says the fact that Donald wanted the books to end up at the library is a big honor.

Donald died last year.

(Illinois Radio Network)
07 31 10 by Newsroom
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