Summary
Just before Christmas, C-Span's Brian Lamb interviewed Lancastrian Matthew Pinsker, author of the new book, "Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home.'' That interview rumbled around in the Scribbler's brain as he read the book this month.
There are several terrific stories about Lincoln in Pinsker's groundbreaking work about the summer retreat at the soldiers' rest home in north Washington, a place that became Lincoln's Camp David.See the full content of this document
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Abraham Lincoln, While at Rest, Was Not Always Magnanimous
One of the best stories concerns a poignant request that Lincoln initially denied. Brian Lamb asked Pinsker, a history professor at Dickinson College, to repeat it during the interview.
In 1862,...See the full content of this document
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