Time respects no person
What you lift up must fall
They're waiting outside
To claim my tumbling walls
--John Mellencamp
There may be no social position more subject to myth than leadership roles. Yesterday on President's Day, Judge Nap took on myths surrounding presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and, particularly, Abraham Lincoln.
The interesting thing about myths surrounding these people is their imperviousness to reason and evidence.
Meanwhile, revisionists keep chipping away at the façade...
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A peacefully negotiated secession was the best way to handle all the problems facing Americans in 1860. A war of coercion was Lincoln's creation. It sometimes takes a century or more to bring an important historical event into perspective.
~Donald Livingston, professor of philosophy, Emory University
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