I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
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At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.David Herbert Donald
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
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What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.
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Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
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But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.
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