Now Lincoln

   Herewith another brief report on my reading. I suspended my reading of Slezkine’s big Russian volume, as too detailed for the patience I could muster at this time and have now made a good start on a very different narrative, Dan Abrams’ Lincolns’ Last Trial. While Lincoln has been on the scene from the beginning, I have not yet reached the point where he moves to the center of the stage. The account from the start has been interesting. It’s about a murder and it’s made utterly clear as to who killed whom and why. So I much look forward to read of Lincoln’s role.

   The account is so interesting in good part because it is very detailed. Very. I have done no research on this event, but I do wonder how so amazingly much—and detailed—information was  actually passed on.