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...special issue examining the iconic figure of Abraham Lincoln drew appreciative letters from longtime Lincoln admirers, Civil War buffs and readers surprised by historians' new insights. Many of those who wrote lamented today's lack of political leaders with President Lincoln's great gifts...
...OFFERED A REMARKABLY SUCCINCT but subtle examination of Lincoln that focused on the key aspects of that American icon and the important people in his life. For more than 50 years, I have been fascinated by the Civil War, Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the issues surrounding slavery. If your report had been available years ago, I could have saved the tuition for a couple of undergraduate and graduate courses as well as a few feet of Lincoln books in my library. Ah, but the fun is in the reading and discovering what Lincoln the man reveals...
...glad you?re bringing that up. I write about race in this book with a great deal of sadness. When I was in high school and college in the ?60s, the civil rights movement was the most important movement and the most moral movement of my time, and of the 20th century, for that matter. Martin Luther King, in my opinion, was one of the five most important, decent Americans since our founding as a nation. What happens after Martin Luther King gets assassinated? We get Jesse Jackson, we get Al Sharpton. If the implication is that...
...meeting was civil?"no one was shouting or pounding the table," says one attendee?but as the questions mounted, it was clear that Fu did not have the board's backing. At least not yet. On April 1 he called Williamson, telling him he needed to do a bit more work with his board but that CNOOC would still make a formal bid in time for another Unocal board meeting the following day. He was mistaken. Schurtenberger, privately, was seething. "For him it was a trust issue," says a friend of his. "Beyond all the questions about strategy or debt...
...notions of the separation of church and state owe a lot to Williams, a deeply pious Puritan clergyman who believed that civil authorities had no business enforcing religious views. (He also thought the British Crown had no power to grant to settlers land that belonged to Indians.) After his views got him banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams founded Rhode Island as a haven of toleration and freethinking. Gaustad's timely little book reminds us that those are the enduring foundations of American civilization...