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an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California

To participate fully in human society has come to mean yielding to the criterion of the clock

" --Gale Galligan

"What I want to say is that in a certain sense

Lincoln an American notary voyaging fromDavid Herbert Donald's "Lincoln" is a stunningly original portrait of 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