"A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that ...
He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.
Photo by Ákos Szabó
Photo by Ian Turnell
He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on...
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