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Saturday, February 07, 2009

The Lincoln Canon

There's a joke in the publishing world. A writer asks his editor for ideas about a commercially promising topic for a book. "Lincoln's doctor's dog," the editor unhesitatingly responds.
What to read for Abe Lincoln's 200th birthday?

Fred Kaplan breaks down the bios (and cracks on Doris Kearns Goodwin's "hyperbolic" Team of Rivals).

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