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Book Review of Lincoln's Dreams

Lincoln's Dreams
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Willis' research into the American Civil War was impecable. I've read ahundred civil war books, and even I didn't know that the numbers on graves in Civvil War cemeteries is a record of the number of bones in that grave! Willis brilliantly used this clever story to highlight just how horrible the war was, and how romantic we have rendered it in order to make it more palatable today. A truly superior writer.