- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there really any relationship between artists' personal conduct and their art? Certainly not.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020