2018: Book #52 “As this letter indicated, Lincoln’s favorite plays focused on power and politics, issues central to his own life. Like Shakespeare’s tragic figures, Lincoln was also ambitious, but he derived little personal pleasure from the exercise of power....
2018: Book #51 “You know that feeling when God is right there, this close, and you can just feel His loving arms right around you, and you can literally hear His voice whispering in your ear, telling you how much He loves you? I don’t. I never have.” That’s how Brant...
2018: Book #50 “Mrs. Lincoln faced a different kind of heat. Influential men were helping her fend off her creditors, but she broke down and told her friend and dressmaker, Mrs. Keckly, that if her husband was defeated (for re-election as president), “I do not know...
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