Don E. Fehrenbacher

Don Edward Fehrenbacher (August 21, 1920 – December 13, 1997) was an American historian. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for ''The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics'', his book about the Dred Scott Decision. In 1977 David M. Potter's ''The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861'', which he edited and completed, won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1997 he won the Lincoln Prize. Provided by Wikipedia