Lincoln Movie - Your Reviews

[Linda Anderson]

(12-01-2012 05:10 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(11-30-2012 10:16 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  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).

Well, if he was telling the same stories to the same people, I can see why people would leave! I don't think Lincoln would have cared if they did, though. The telling was probably more for him than for his audience.