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RE: Who is this person? - Rob Wick - 10-08-2019
Sorry Gene, but it isn't Stalin. I don't remember ever reading Stalin's biography of Lincoln, but admittedly I haven't read them all.
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Rob
RE: Who is this person? - Rob Wick - 10-08-2019
By the time of his death, he had contributed 48,000 copies of books to three specific colleges, two of which had Lincoln connections.
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Rob
RE: Who is this person? - Rob Wick - 10-08-2019
Things appear to be moving slowly here, so I'll give two clues.
Ida Tarbell said in a personal note that "One thing that interested me about [blank's] life is that he has reproduced a number of paintings of the period--pretty dreadful most of them--not the kind of thing you would want hanging about. [His] attitude towards them is very interesting. The truth is anything that concerns directly or indirectly with Lincoln while he was living is a matter of passionate importance to him. I have never seen quite such an interesting worshipper as [?]."
Second. He didn't begin his Lincoln studies until the age of 53 when he was asked to give a speech with only a few days notice. From that point to his death at 69, he was very prolific.
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Rob
RE: Who is this person? - Steve - 10-08-2019
A painter? Frederick MacMonnies?
RE: Who is this person? - Rob Wick - 10-08-2019
There is certainly a resemblance there, but it isn't MacMonnies.
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Rob
RE: Who is this person? - Rob Wick - 10-08-2019
In one of the obituaries published about him, it was noted that Lewis Gannett, the editor of the New York Herald Tribune Book Review section, had written, "Not even Carl Sandburg's 'Prairie Years' is so evocative of the spirit of the village where Lincoln grew up... ." One imagines Sandburg might have demurred.
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Rob
RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 10-09-2019
Bernhardt Wall?
RE: Who is this person? - Rob Wick - 10-09-2019
Sorry Roger, but it isn't Wall.
This clue should give it away. In the entire field of Lincolniana, the only person whose reputation was worse than him would be Wilma Minor.
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Rob
RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 10-09-2019
Emanuel Hertz?
RE: Who is this person? - Rob Wick - 10-09-2019
You got it Roger. It is Hertz. Before this question I had known very little about Hertz the person, and this was an eye-opening experience for me. For example, in 1927, which was 13 years before his death in 1940, Hertz sold his Lincoln collection. None of the newspaper accounts say why he decided to sell, but he realized $46,604, which is almost $700,000 in today's money.
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Rob
RE: Who is this person? - AussieMick - 10-22-2019
Who is this? Left click on the image to enlarge
(hint: its not me)
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 10-22-2019
Looks a bit like Karl Marx (but isn't he...)
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 10-22-2019
Upon reconsideration - Walt Whitman?
RE: Who is this person? - Anita - 10-22-2019
I agree with Eva,. Walt Whitman.
RE: Who is this person? - AussieMick - 10-23-2019
no, sorry (and for being a bit slow ...... just returned from library) ... not Walt Whitman, nor Kmart.
Hint: He would (I'm sure) have loved the internet and have been an avid blogger.