Lincoln Movie - Your Reviews

[RJNorton]

Did Lincoln repeat his stories?

Yes - often he did, according to his friends. I am going to mention a book that I do not think we've ever mentioned on the forum - Paul M. Zall's Abe Lincoln Laughing: Humorous Anecdotes from Original Sources by and about Abraham Lincoln, (University of California Press, 1982).

I own several books of Lincoln's jokes and stories, but many of them are filled with stories that are apocryphal or without an authentic original source.

Professor Zall tried to separate the true Lincoln anecdotes from ones that could not be verified. In the process, Professor Zall eliminated literally hundreds of Lincoln stories, jokes, anecodotes, etc.

And, yes, the Ethan Allen story is in there!