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Word: currains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1947-1947
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Like most Civil War novels, it rustles with crinolines and chivalry, tells its story through the decline of an aristocratic family. But Author Williams' Currains are haunted by a unique skeleton in the plantation closet: it seems that Papa Currain, long since dead, "like a young torn turkey on the prowl, lightly dandling a hedge wench named Lucy Hanks in some hidden thicket ... had fathered Abraham Lincoln's mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crinolines & Corruption | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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