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To: DoodleDawg
None of the biographers I've read - James F. Simon, Bernard Steiner, and Walker Lewis - wrote a biography on Lincoln as well. So what motivation would they have to protect him at the expense of not accurately detailing the life of the central figure in their own books?

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James F. Simon is the Martin Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at New York Law School. He lives with his wife in West Nyack, New York.

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Bernard Christian Steiner (born Guilford, Connecticut, 13 August 1867; died 12 January 1926) was a United States educator, librarian and jurist.

He prepared for college at the academy of Frederick, Maryland, then attended Yale, where he graduated with a A.B. in 1888, and a A.M. in 1890. He graduated from the University of Maryland with degree of LL.B. in 1894.

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H.H. Walker Lewis: He began his career at Piper, Carey and Hall in Baltimore after he graduated from Harvard Law School in 1928.

The native of Hoboken, N.J., was directly descended from Fielding Lewis, the husband of George Washington's sister, Betty.

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So which one of these North Eastern men would you expect to tarnish the legacy of Abraham Lincoln?

371 posted on 12/01/2017 9:26:30 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
So which one of these North Eastern men would you expect to tarnish the legacy of Abraham Lincoln?

All of them, rather than compromise their biography of Taney. Roger Taney was the subject of their work. Deliberately leaving out an important part of his life and career would cast doubt on the rest of their research.

I realize that accuracy is unimportant to you if it gets in the way of your agenda. But you aren't a professional historian and biographer. Accuracy for them is the life's blood of their work. It forms the foundation for their professional reputations. To you it is nothing, to them it is everything. And the shame is that you will never, ever understand that.

372 posted on 12/01/2017 9:46:42 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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