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Old Abe Lincoln Make a Tall, Tall Tale

Jesse Walker | 3.11.2009 2:30 PM


What's really interesting to me about this story is the way the watchmaker revised his memory of the message after the event. Slavery ended, Lincoln became a folk hero, and a story accordingly evolved.

Books Editor Jesse Walker is the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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