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This statue . We are all chicagoans. I am going to shame you a little bit, you should know what may be the best sculpture of lincoln from the 19th century, linkin park. Lincoln park. There is free admission there. Aep outside next time, it is amazing sculpture. It is called the standing lincoln. But we will get back to this. I love this material. Hesso moved by lincoln, his error his era. I am in love with his body there are lots of things to say about his photographs. I do not dress up like Abraham Lincoln, even though i am tall and thin my came. Maybe one day. Thatg said that, i realize publ...

Weve also got some other raffles going on, and at your table you have been given a notecard that we would like you to write down a question for our panel this afternoon. If you have a question for them, and what i will do, i will take up the most objectionable ones [laughs] well proceed from there. But, so if youve got a question, write it down, and we will ask our wonderful speakers today. Weve also at the break we are going to bring in my staff and were going to have a chance acknowledge them. Our Panel Discussion is after lunch at 1 00. So, thatll be the end of our day. I really like our sp...

Questions. So keep your questions that you have in mind for the first and second speaker, or after the third speaker. I will introduce them briefly. All three of them. And then have an opportunity to say a few more words about each as they begin their talks. The first book is a biography of lincoln, subtitled the man who saved america. Say a few more words about each and it is for the general reader. The author, david, will show, has some astonishing illustrations. The second book, by Elizabeth Smith brownstein, an experienced washington journalist, talks about what is today called president l...

Civil war, but the most private lives of his soldiers as well. As our first speaker amusingly calls it, the remarkable nightlife of civil war americans. What he is describing in that subtitle is their dreams. Not there conscious hopes, but their subconscious imaginings. And what they wrote home to describe in remembering what occurred during the precious hours during which the troops aged to catch the rest their rest in tents or in the field, drifting into dreams that expressed longing for home, their parents, their sweethearts, siblings, children and others, as you will hear. It is like our s...

Williams, chair of the Lincoln Forum, and welcome to this panel of forum 22, relating to lincolns enemies. And im so pleased to have it distinguished, every time someone says distinguished i want to run to the merlot bar. Its like saying with all due respect in my courtroom. But we do have some great scholars with us this morning. Stephen engle, the author of a great book about lincoln, and the nations governors. Jonathan white, author of midnight in america, and soon to be with us, the book our little monitor. And of course catherine clinton, no stranger to us, author of mrs. Lincoln, a life,...