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Republicans got some wicked comfort noting that for more than a century, Democrats have been kidnapping Lincoln without credit. Historian David Donald wrote an essay in 1951 on "Getting Right with Lincoln," detailing how Presidents in trouble had claimed kinship. Franklin Roosevelt once suggested that Lincoln was a father of the New Deal. This season Truman quotes have been manufactured and mangled, while his prepolitical identity is often shortened to "dirt farmer." There is a suspicion that very few have studied McCullough's splendid text, particularly the first part. Bush admitted he jumped over some of that and went straight...
...went in country after country as I chased the stories about Africa that usually interest the Western press: the coups, the starving refugees, the monumentally mismanaged governments, the ugly dictatorships. Everywhere I went, I felt a sense of kinship with the people I covered, who looked like long-lost friends and relatives back in the U.S. From the moment I set foot in Africa, I had a sense of having come home...
...found that such dangers are overstated; it would take generations of inbreeding for such problems to surface regularly. A more important reason for the taboo is cultural: incest has been banned to preserve family harmony by keeping disruptive rivalries and jealousies at bay. It has also helped to strengthen kinship clans; by forcing members to marry outside the group, the clan expands its wealth and allies...
...even closer kinship links Japan, ironically, with the country that many Americans feel closest of all to, and regard as their second -- or cultural -- home, the country with which we enjoy our "special relationship." The affinities between England and Japan go far beyond the fact that both are tea-loving nations with a devotion to gardens, far beyond the fact that both drive on the left and are rainy islands studded with green villages. They go even beyond the fact that both have an astringent sense of % hierarchy, subscribe to a code of stoical reticence and are, in some respects...
When he spent a semester here in 1989, Shell taught two Comparative Literature courses on Kinship and the European Renaissance...