Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abraham Lincoln distrusted biographies and seldom read them. His son, Robert T, Lincoln, shared his distrust; he included in it the biographers of his father. He seldom gave them help and never encouragement. As a result, when Lincoln scholars recently scrambled to Washington to see the Lincolniana that had been ordered sealed until 21 years after Robert's death they found few surprises and no answers to some of the major questions abou Abraham Lincoln's life...
There is a suspicion that Robert destroyed some Lincoln papers. Portrait for Posterity, a knowing study of the major Lincoln biographers, will help many students to understand, if not to condone Robert's stubborn attitude on the subject Lincoln's first biographers were generally more interested in mythmaking and ax grinding than in fact-finding and scholarship...
...MALONE Lincoln...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Frank Black conducts Copland's Lincoln Portrait, Dvořák's From the New World...
...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...