Word: abraham
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...managed to avoid fighting for it, or even living in it, during the Civil War), Booth was clear-headed and precise about the psychic rewards and second-hand renown that come with dispatching a famous man. "What a glorious opportunity for a man to immortalize himself by killing Abraham Lincoln!" he remarked two years before his crime...
...magic over a decade for Presidents and visiting heads of state. Reagan has sat in the library with the dark red walls where Andrew Jackson took coffee, and he has brushed by the shadowy parlor where Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies in 1861. Abraham Lincoln used to wander across to Blair House during the Civil War, a troubled giant who came for relief from the grim story of war through friends and humor...
...almost every case, it has taken a single leader with overpowering moral force to make his countrymen squarely face our deepest problems. America began the long process of solving the inhuman contradictions of race under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln. A hundred years later, it continued that process led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. For generations, white Americans had countenanced prejudice and discrimination and Black Americans, intimidated by violence and tradition, failed to take effective action. But when M.L. King agreed to head the Mont-gomery bus boycott people began to muster courage and hope. And only when...
...News, Lewis did a series on a man named Abraham Chasanow, for which he later won a Pulitzer Prize. Chasanow had been an employee of the Navy Department, who, after working there for 20 years, was fired because of alleged Communist associations. Lewis claims now, as he did at the time, that Chasanow was "about as much of a communist as Ronald Reagan was." The seeds of Lewis' liberalism were already sewn...
Likenesses of Abraham Lincoln stare down from monuments and up from pennies and $5 bills; his mythic face is surely one of the most familiar in history. Yet no two of the 120 known surviving photographs of him look exactly alike, a fact surprisingly documented in The Face of Lincoln (Viking; 201 pages; $75). Editor James Mellon spent years combing the country for Lincoln pictures; when original plates or negatives were available, they were meticulously developed to bring out all retrievable detail. This work has brought forth images of astonishing clarity; it sometimes seems possible to number the hairs...