"As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it."
-Doris Kearns Goodwin
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"Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.“
-Doris Kearns Goodwin
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