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...announcement’s crescendo even called for “a new birth of freedom,” borrowing verbatim from Lincoln??s Gettysburg Address. Calling for national unity, Lincoln said in 1858, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” “Divided, we are bound to fail,” would-be President Obama said, on the same note, 149 years later...
...party politics to become one of our greatest presidents. Like Kennedy, he had a pretty good civil rights record of his own. Oh yes, and he was from Illinois. In fact, Obama even went as far as to make his announcement at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Lincoln??s old stomping ground...
Princeton professor James McPherson boasted three years ago in The Nation magazine that he had counted “at least 120” errors, “large and small,” in Geoffrey Perret’s last book, “Lincoln??s War.” Perret should have been proud that McPherson—arguably the world’s leading living Civil War historian—took the time to tally all the mistakes in the volume. It places Perret a cut above the many writers who toil away in both...
Instead of viewing McPherson’s faultfinding as a badge of honor, though, Perret responded to reviews of “Lincoln??s War” by leaving the reality-based community altogether...
...most immediately noticeable aspect of “Lincoln??s Smile and Other Enigmas” is a giant photograph of Abraham Lincoln??s craggy face staring out from the cover. But in spite of the photograph’s prominence, the key word in the title of Alan Trachtenberg’s new book is not “Lincoln,” but “enigmas.”Honest Abe figures only slightly in one of the book’s essays, and even then it is not so much Abraham Lincoln...