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...awkward man, a usurper of power. But Republicans saw him as a great asset and tried to build a myth that would last--and do the party lasting good. In May 1865, the Republican editor Josiah Holland interviewed the President's law partner William Herndon at length. When the subject of religion came up, Herndon told him, "The less said, the better," doubting that the pious Holland would want the details of Lincoln's unorthodox history. How, for example, Lincoln had doubted the divinity of Christ and the infallibility of the Bible. "Oh, never mind," Holland said...
...research on Lincoln began seven years ago, when I learned, much to my surprise, that the vital subject of his melancholy--which his friends uniformly identified as one of his chief characteristics--had been neglected for much of the 20th century. As I dug into the story, I learned about the two times, at ages 26 and 32, when Lincoln broke down so severely that he came near suicide; about his profound gloom in his middle years and his deliberate work to cope with it; and, finally, about how his depression both plagued him and fueled his great work...
...face was a map to his soul. The inherent contradictions of the man, whose gift for empathy was matched by his brutal determination to keep the Union together, are what make him one of the most edifying subjects to study in all of U.S. history. Three years ago, TIME began the Making of America series. Each year around the Fourth of July it features a major American figure who helped shaped the nation. We began with explorers Lewis and Clark, then focused on Ben Franklin and last year chose Thomas Jefferson. This year we decided to dedicate an issue...
...brother-in-law are involved. The President's aides maintain that the whistle-blowers have been paid to lie, and that Cruz, while an honorable cleric, has been hoodwinked. Cruz defends his actions: "When church people intervene in the so-called political field, it is because even politics is subject to right and wrong, subject to good and evil...
...reforming and the older couple's rediscovering the first fine flush of passion. Shaw indulges no such false hopes. He sketches the destructive powers of jealousy and possession. His central theme is the confusion brought to courtship by the liberation, and education, of women. The surprisingly contemporary subject allows Shaw to uncork a few deft jokes and also to deliver characteristic pronunciamentos, profound on first hearing, murky on repetition: "Women have to unlearn the false good manners of their slavery before they acquire the genuine good manners of their freedom." Despite such ponderosities, Shaw manages to make lovesickness look like...