Abe Lincoln Laughing

[L Verge]

As I was growing up back in the 1940s and 50s, my mother and grandmother showered me with lots of biographical books on famous Americans in order to ensure that I would inherit their love of history. I also had a stack of Classic Comic Books that introduced me to knights of yore and the like.

If I remember correctly, most of the bios were along general lines of being an American patriot and supporting one's country. Then came the Vietnam War... Situations on the home front and the college campuses changed much of that idealism.