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10-08-2019, 01:02 PM,
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Rob Wick
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RE: Who is this person?
Sorry Gene, but it isn't Stalin. I don't remember ever reading Stalin's biography of Lincoln, but admittedly I haven't read them all. 
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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.
--Carl Sandburg
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10-08-2019, 11:22 PM,
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Rob Wick
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RE: Who is this person?
In one of the obituaries published about him, it was noted that Lewis Gannett, the editor of the New York Herald Tribune Book Review section, had written, "Not even Carl Sandburg's 'Prairie Years' is so evocative of the spirit of the village where Lincoln grew up... ." One imagines Sandburg might have demurred.
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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.
--Carl Sandburg
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10-09-2019, 01:41 PM,
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Rob Wick
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RE: Who is this person?
You got it Roger. It is Hertz. Before this question I had known very little about Hertz the person, and this was an eye-opening experience for me. For example, in 1927, which was 13 years before his death in 1940, Hertz sold his Lincoln collection. None of the newspaper accounts say why he decided to sell, but he realized $46,604, which is almost $700,000 in today's money.
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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.
--Carl Sandburg
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Who is this person?
