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Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.
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Lincoln
Twain
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Words about Lincoln fill a small but ever-growing library.
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Fill
Lincoln
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Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.
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Biographies
Base
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Political history is not the only way to approach historical figures.
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Figures
Political History
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We do ourselves a disservice when we self-servingly massage the record.
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Disservice
Massage
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Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.
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Constructive
Harm
Myth
Purposes
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Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted.
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Gore
Immense
Literary
Wasted
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With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of.
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Civil War
Tragic
Due
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I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.
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Contribute
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A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.
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Lincoln
Move On
One Book
Recommendation
Scholars
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'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level.
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Brilliant
Compelling
Morris
Colonel
Highest Level
Practices
Roosevelt
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I got to know Gore Vidal quite well, up front and personal: his magnificent strengths and his appalling, almost other-worldly weaknesses.
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Gore
Magnificent
Appalling
Strengths
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Lincoln is a genius of language and a brilliant writer who deserves to be seen as part of the canon of great writers in American literature.
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American Literature
Brilliant
Canon
Deserves
Lincoln
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I first wrote a biography of Thomas Carlyle, and it turned out I loved writing biographies and had a talent for it. I believed I had a contribution to make.
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Biographies
Contribution
Thomas
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To give credit to Lincoln for moral progression seems beyond the facts and unnecessary for our appreciation of this arguably greatest of all American presidents.
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Appreciation
Credit
Progression
Unnecessary
Arguably
Lincoln
Presidents
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I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put my interest in the narrative writing of biographies.
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Biographies
Narrative
Publish
Young Man
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Lincoln is distinguished from every other president, with the exception of Jefferson, in that we can be certain that he wrote every word to which his name is attached.
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Distinguished
Exception
Attached
Jefferson
Lincoln
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Obama is a very fine writer with an excellent command of language. His memoir 'Dreams From My Father' is a fine book, but it will not rank as one of the great autobiographies.
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Fine
Memoir
Writer
Obama
Autobiographies
Rank
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In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with his and the world's pain and confusion in the best way he knew how.
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Attempting
Best Way
Confusion
Dickens
Charles
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It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their artistic genius to produce great art. Art and morality have no necessary connection.
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Great Art
Morality
Art Great People
Unpleasant
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The post-assassination Lincoln took on a greatly amplified importance to much of the American public, probably the president most deeply reviled in his lifetime and mostly highly regarded after his death.
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Importance
Lifetime
American Public
Amplified
Greatly
Regarded
Reviled
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The challenge of a president himself struggling to find the conjunction between the right words and honest expression, a use of language that respects intellect, truth, and sincerity, has largely been abandoned.
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Abandoned
Intellect
Right Words
Sincerity
Conjunction
Largely
Respects
Struggling
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Reading Edmund Morris's 'Colonel Roosevelt' is a rewarding journey, as it must also have been for its author, who concludes his three-volume saga begun in 1980 with publication of 'The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.'
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Morris
Publication
Saga
Theodore
Rise
Author
Begun
Colonel
Rewarding
Roosevelt
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I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from his lifetime to this year of his bicentennial. Some advice: Don't try that unless you have at least five years available.
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Available
Lifetime
Expert
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Can a great artist be mean-spirited, grasping, harsh to his family, violent in his emotions, vindictive in his hatreds, an all-purpose scoundrel? If our test cases are the likes of Wagner, Picasso, and, let me say, Dickens, the answer is a resounding yes.
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Cases
Dickens
Grasping
Harsh
Likes
Vindictive
Wagner
Family Great Me
Picasso
Resounding
Scoundrel
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The value of Eric Foner's 'The Fiery Trial' lies in its comprehensive review of mostly familiar material; in its sensible evaluation of the full range of information already available about Abraham Lincoln and slavery; and in the deft thoroughness of its scholarship.
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Abraham
Available
Comprehensive
Eric
Evaluation
Familiar
Fiery
Information
Range
Scholarship
Sensible
Slavery
Thoroughness
Full
Lies
Lincoln
Material
Mostly
Review
Value
Trial
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