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Lincoln
Carl-E:
It's also in a lot of public libraries...
...in the US. I know, not really helpful.
jwhouk:
A suggested reading:
The Civil War - the text of the narrative of the miniseries. You can get a good paperback version of it relatively cheap.
It covers the whole of the War from Fort Sumter to Appomattox - and beyond.
Barmymoo:
Hmm sadly not available on the UK site, but I might be able to find it in the library - we have a lot of books in the university library system. Thanks!
I read a review of the film today which said that it white-washed aspects of Lincoln's character, such as the fact that he believed white people were inherently better than black people. Anyone know anything about this?
jwhouk:
That was the prevailing attitude in the US at the time - even among those who were abolitionists.
Redball:
It's half off and half on topic, but my first thought about the previous two posts was that phrenology was a popular pseudoscience through the 19th century. The connection, I guess, is that there were few ways of determining superiority or inferiority, innate intelligence etc., so the shape of the head was as good as any to make wild-ass guesses about all kinds of characteristics.
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