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In this respect, Kearns is like most Lincoln biographers.

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Fred Kaplan, however, is different. A literary scholar but not a historian, Kaplan argues in Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer that Old Abe was a writer first and politician second. The result is a fresh perspective on a man whose life has been dissected endlessly during this bicentennial year. Yet they also expose what seems to me a problem with his method.

Lincoln, Kaplan points out, did what good poets do: evoke an external image to explore his innermost self. But no politician communicates by indirection; and Lincoln was a politician.

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It makes less sense to suggest that Lincoln was talking across his audience to himself, something literary meditations do. An accomplished professor of English and Irish literature, he had a passion for the Civil War that undoubtedly stemmed from his research of his great-great-grand — father Abraham, who rode with John Buford and the 9th New York Cavalry.

Bart cherished a family photograph showing his ancestor at the dedication of the 9th New York memorial at Gettysburg. To subscribe, click here. Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]. William Frederick Cody led a signal life, from his youthful exploits with the Pony Express and in service as a U.

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