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In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few…

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The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood…
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the…
Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though…
Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute…
I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about…
The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with…
I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that…
At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that…
Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw…

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