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In recent decades, the Ann Rutledge story has been treated as mythical rather than as an account of Abraham Lincoln's first but doomed love affair. Here the author restores Ann Rutledge to her rightful place in the historical record.
Looks at the time the poet spent in Rome, before his death at the age of twenty-five, and his love affair with Fanny Brawne
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The 150th anniversary of the greatest Edgar Allen Poe mystery of all, his death, is finally put to rest.
Nicodemus, a member of the council of elders, hears that Jesus has risen from the tomb, and he visits the spot, after which he investigates the situation.
In 1913 amateur fossil hunter and archaeologist Charles Dawson found in a gravel pit the cranium and jaw of an entirely new species of humanoid, which became known as Piltdown man, which caused headlines worldwide as the missing link between man and ape. In 1952, it was exposed as a hoax. With eight pages of photos, this book is a wonderful detective story, and the first examination the convincingly fingers the perpetrator.
Originally published: 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1982.
"For sheer magnetism there never was another personality on the American scene to match Will Rogers. The cowboy philosopher, they called him. He said things that made people think hard and laugh at the same time. A top attraction in movies and a star on radio, he was also a widely read and much-quoted columnist and writer whose wryly humorous observations on ordinary life, especially politics, found an audience of millions." "But he was much more than America's best-loved entertainer. That homey, confiding way of his charmed folks everywhere so that without even trying Will became everybody's favorite neighbor. He wasn't just listened to and admired. He was dearly loved for just being himsel...