The Shadows Rise

[Eva Elisabeth]

I feel the same. I think the romance was real, but the melancholy respective it's length and the affair's "prevailing over Mary" overrated. I believe it could well have been that if she had not died the affair would still have come to an end like it happens to "first romances" (with the same kind of temporary sadness and heartache).

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I agree with you, Joe and Gene. I do not know what others think, but my personal favorite book about Lincoln in New Salem is the one by Benjamin P. Thomas.

It is also my favorite--to me Benjamin Thomas also wrote the best one-volume of Lincoln ever produced.

I agree with Roger, and with Joe, too, just that both, Thomas and Donald share my #1 position