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...religious doubter, a teller of vulgar stories, an uncouth and awkward man, a usurper of power. But Republicans saw him as a great asset and tried to build a myth that would last--and do the party lasting good. In May 1865, the Republican editor Josiah Holland interviewed the President's law partner William Herndon at length. When the subject of religion came up, Herndon told him, "The less said, the better," doubting that the pious Holland would want the details of Lincoln's unorthodox history. How, for example, Lincoln had doubted the divinity of Christ and the infallibility...
...Holland wasn't alone in trying to "fix" Lincoln. "Those who have spoken most confidently of their knowledge of his personal qualities," Pennsylvania Republican Alexander McClure said of Lincoln, "are, as a rule, those who saw least of them below the surface." And many real Lincoln intimates kept a low profile, wishing to avoid the media circus. Meanwhile, one man who tried to talk about Lincoln in a complex and honest way paid a heavy price. After Lincoln died, Herndon solicited memories from men and women who had known him, identifying and tracking down crucial sources, then hounding them until...
...calm the waters, B.Y.U. President Jeffrey Holland went to Israel and pledged last August that any Mormon teacher or student who proselytizes will be sent home. Church President Ezra Taft Benson last week wrote to Kollek, promising that Mormons will honor all Israeli laws. These commitments have not mollified Rabbi Moshe Porush of Yad 1'Achim (A Hand to the Brothers), an antimissionary organization that is spearheading the protests. He points to a 1979 Mormon handbook on how to convert Jews, which the church says is no longer...
...sons, who thrive until a civil war inflames the population. His grandson ventures to Rome, where persecutions resume; a few chapters later, a descendant is in North Africa, courting the daughter of a Jewish Berber. The holders of the scroll move to Spain, to Narbonne, to Italy and Salonika, Holland and Paris and Poland, where the final chapter is inscribed in ashes...
Although a sense of dread permeates each chapter, there are many instances of kindness. The family prospers for a time in France and Holland; members help to produce the first printed Bible and mix with the burghers of Amsterdam. While there is never a lack of assassins ready to throw the first stone, almost every generation encounters righteous gentiles without whom Jewish survival would have been impossible. Halter becomes an actor in the drama, much as Alex Haley did in Roots, piercing the narrative with his own meditations: "We are periodically asked to choose between the Land and the Book...