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ABE AND COMPANY
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20051023
Author:Douglas Brinkley
It was 1908 and Leo Tolstoy was holding forth on the topic of great men in history in a North Caucasus village somewhere along the remote border between Europe and Asia. Storytelling was the Russian novelist's gift and, at the urging of a tribal chief, he was regaling the wide-eyed locals with riveting tales of Caesar and Napoleon. But as Tolstoy soon learned, it was Abraham Lincoln that these "rude barbarians" begged to hear about. When he was only 22 years old, Lincoln running for public office in Illinois had written an open letter to the folks of Sangamon County, praying he was "worthy ...
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