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Title: Biographies and stories of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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t or saidthat, says John Y. Simon, aLincoln expert at SouthernIllinois University-Carbon-dale. Theyve done childishthings in trying to make it amuseum for children. The museum is not withouthistoric artifacts: There is acopy of the Gettysburg Ad-dress in Lincolns own hand, aprint of the Emancipation The Abraham Lincoln Libraryand Museum in Springfield, III. Proclamation, the briefcaseLincoln used as president,and a jewelry case owned byMary. But BRC wants visitorsto do more than just shufflepast fading parchment. Wewant to engage them, sweepthem up in the subject, saysCEO Bob Rogers. And a bit of dissent seemsto sit fine with museum orga-nizers, who say the exhibitsstress that Lincoln was hardlybeloved in his time. Marblememorials are cold and pale,while Lincolns days were richin color and radical change,says director Smith: Thequestion is how to bring itback to life, to flesh andblood. -David LaGesse U.S.News & World report. February 21. 2005 71 Special Report GB/.NGER COLLECTION
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seemed to be getting off toa rough start. The fact is,in his 20s and 30s, he wassomething of a politicalhack, says Burlingame,who is writing a four-volume biography ofLincoln. A member of the Whig Party, hemade a habit, not uncommon at the time,of publishing anonymous letters in localnewspapers ridiculing and mocking hispartys political opponents, the Democrats.Burlingame, in his research, says he hascome across more than 200 such lettershe believes were penned by Lincoln. Inthem, Lincoln is more hatchet man thanHonest Abe: He could be clever, but onmore than a few occasions, he was sim-ply disappointing—engaging in the samerace-baiting politics he would later de-plore. In the presidential elections of 1836and 1840, for example, he accused theDemocratic candidate, Martin Van Buren, After early political disappointments, Lincoln would win his battle for the White House against Douglas of having supported blacksuffrage—a cardinal sin, heseemed to suggest. Thebottom line, says Bur-li

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