David Herbert Donald has added a valuable supplement to his recent biography of Abraham Lincoln. “We Are Lincoln Men”:Abraham Lincoln and His Friends explores Lincoln’s friendships for which sufficient evidence has survived to permit meaningful analysis. Expressing in his introduction genuine surprise that Lincoln had so few such friendships, Donald then defines friendship in ways both […]
Robert McColley
Robert McColley is professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This review first appeared in the Journal of the
Illinois State Historical Society, Autumn 2004 edition.
