Who wrote to Tarbell, "I feel that somehow the real Lincoln has eluded the biographers. I wish I might dare to hope that I could interpret him. I have been so occupied with gathering facts I sometimes think I am farther from my real goal than I thought I was when I began."
Googling is permitted, although I can't imagine it will help. One free clue. It was not Carl Sandburg.
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Rob
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.