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How Lincoln Triumphed in an Era Even More Toxic Than Ours

BETTER ANGEL

Biographer Sidney Blumenthal talks to The Daily Beast about a pre-Civil War America where Jefferson Davis demanded both Lincoln and Douglas be lynched.

Allen Barra

Published Sep. 8 2019 5:32AM EDT

190908-barra-abraham-lincoln-hero_dufuik — Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Library of Congress

Allen Barra

Allen Barra

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