The Man Who Wrote the Man Who Killed Lincoln

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There is something of additional interest in Stearn’s book. Stern repeated an allegation by Hertz that Robert Todd Lincoln burned some of his father’s papers because of treason by a cabinet member.

See Stern, Philip Van Doren. The Man Who Killed Lincoln. New York, NY: The Literary Guild of America, 1939, p. 406; Hertz, Emanuel. The Hidden Lincoln: From the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon. New York, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., 1940, pp. 17-18.