May 12, 2000
A Historian Breaks and Makes Myth in a Novel on Lincoln's Youth
In 'Abe,' Richard Slotkin paints a plausible portrait of the president as a young man
Most historians see their work as the antidote to myths; Richard Slotkin prefers to make them. He describes his latest book, a novel
ALSO SEE:
Should Historians Take the Fiction-Writing Test?
called Abe
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