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Life can be like baseball. If the pitch is close with a three-two count I'm swinging, protecting the plate. Not trusting no umpire. Also remember: it don't matter how many you foul off as long as you don't miss on a 2 strike count and you put the ball in play.

 

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Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery

The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union

By Daniel W. Crofts

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368 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 24 halftones, 1 tables, notes, bibl., index

• PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4696-6394-4
  Published: February 2021
• HARDCOVER ISBN: 978-1-4696-2731-1
  Published: April 2016
• EBOOK ISBN: 978-1-4696-2732-8
  Published: February 2016

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2017 Bobbie and John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia

In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln’s life: his role as the “Great Emancipator.” Lincoln always hated slavery, but he also believed it to be legal where it already existed, and he never imagined fighting a war to end it. In 1861, as part of a last-ditch effort to preserve the Union and prevent war, the new president even offered to accept a constitutional amendment that barred Congress from interfering with slavery in the slave states. Lincoln made this key overture in his first inaugural address.

Crofts unearths the hidden history and political maneuvering behind the stillborn attempt to enact this amendment, the polar opposite of the actual Thirteenth Amendment of 1865 that ended slavery. This compelling book sheds light on an overlooked element of Lincoln’s statecraft and presents a relentlessly honest portrayal of America’s most admired president. Crofts rejects the view advanced by some Lincoln scholars that the wartime momentum toward emancipation originated well before the first shots were fired. Lincoln did indeed become the “Great Emancipator,” but he had no such intention when he first took office. Only amid the crucible of combat did the war to save the Union become a war for freedom.

 

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"In those days there was no money to buy books. I borrowed books from the rental library of Shakespeare and Company, which was the library and bookstore of Sylvia Beach at 12 rue de I'Odeon."

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (Paris in the 20's)

I can't imagine being without money to buy books. The next time I am in Paris (which will be the first time) I will make a beeline to Shakespeare and Company.

 Baylor won the national championship last nite 86 to 70.  Not the close exciting game many expected.  Baylor is just that good.

 

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What goes around comes around. Or so they say. I believe it. I find myself rethinking about things from the 70's. What is the sound of one hand clapping? Whatever happened to my green leisure suit? Shall we gather at the river? An appropriately timed Butterfinger still hits the spot. Can I have your phone number? I lost mine. I still miss my pair of blue boots. Hendrix lives! Pardon me while I touch the sky. Janice Joplin keeps hanging around also.

 

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And so I drive down 280 to Childersburg for my first COVID vaccine. The CVS that administered the shot was well-organized though I almost had an accident leaving the place as I turned out of my parking space into the exit traffic from the drive-thru, it was fun driving thru Chelsea as I waved at everybody that I could, and I figured this must at least the 1000th time I've driven down this historic highway. Chelsea has grown over the years while Childersburg looks the same since 1972. I figure there must be a lot of pent-up anger in that forgotten town. I had surely forgotten about it until their CVS came thru for me.