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““Adams had no doubt that education was as much a human birthright as freedom, for females as well as males, for slaves as well as free blacks. Freedom and education were inseparable.””

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Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

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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…

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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…

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Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.

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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…

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“The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that…

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Is there really any relationship between artists' personal conduct and their art? Certainly not.

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Words about Lincoln fill a small but ever-growing library.

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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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“He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been…

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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…

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“As became a young sinner, Sam [Mark Twain] had a special interest in Satan. He asked his Sunday school teacher questions about Eve in…

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

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“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

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According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind…

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“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,…

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

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