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Article: Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- February 1, 2009
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Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President. By Edward Steers Jr. Introduction by Harold Holzer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. [xviii], 264. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-2466-7.)
In 1929 Lloyd Lewis published Myths after Lincoln, a volume whose major focus was on Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the apotheosis and expanding mythology that followed. Lewis also contemplated such matters as Lincoln's paternity and the murky origins of what is still purported to be Lincoln's birthplace cabin.
Now comes Edward Steers Jr., who admirably elaborates on many of the vexed new and persisting ...
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Article: RALPH G. NEWMAN, 1911-1998.
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March 1, 1999 ;
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... ... renamed his store the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop and led fifteen friends ... Customers Carl Sandburg and Lloyd Lewis influenced Newman to specialize ... more formal education than Lincoln and, in addition to selling ... challenging field. When the great Lincoln collection of Oliver R. Barrett ...
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