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Mason Locke Weems

Richard Brookhiser has spent four years trying to capture for the television screen the character of perhaps the greatest American.

 

To mark the birthdays of our two great Presidents, a new look at the legends that surround their memory …
An admiring re-appraisal of the Cherry Tree Fable and its author, by Garry Wills , together with the
Curious Story of Abraham Lincoln’s Lost Love Letters, by Don E. Fehrenbacher

 

Scores of towns and counties all over the nation honor some heroics largely invented by Parson Weems

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