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History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

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Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

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Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

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Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?

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I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

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I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.

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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 27th, 1969

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