After Abraham Lincoln's assassination, William Herndon, his former law partner, began exhaustive research on what would become his influential biography of the late president. As Herndon's biographer David Donald said, ""To understand Herndon's own rather peculiar approach to Lincoln biography, one must go back to his letters.""Herndon carried on an extensive correspondence with people who wanted to know more about the late president. In Herndon on Lincoln: Letters, Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis collect the fruits of those exchanges. This invaluable resource offers unique insights into Lincoln's life and career from someone close to him during Lincoln's time as a lawyer, Republican Party founder, and candidate for office, all rendered in Herndon's own authoritative and distinctive voice. A trove of primary source material, Herndon on Lincoln: Letters is a must for libraries, research institutions, and scholars of a towering American figure and his times.
