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To: central_va
It is too well written to not have been tweaked by Twain.

Except that the original manuscript is in the Library of Congress and can be compared to the final book, and its style is perfectly consistent with his letters, orders and reports.

57 posted on 07/24/2015 4:03:31 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Except that the original manuscript is in the Library of Congress and can be compared to the final book, and its style is perfectly consistent with his letters, orders and reports.

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Yep. Grant was very intelligent, spoke and wrote well. And like Lincoln, he was good at math, too. His goal as a young man was to eventually become a math professor, but fate wouldn’t allow it.


71 posted on 07/24/2015 4:29:21 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

It is a very good.


91 posted on 07/24/2015 5:50:48 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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