Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Saturday, November 08, 2008




It does not exaggerate too much to say that in Alexander Gardner Lincoln had his Gilbert Stuart. After photography (and a masterpiece like this) portrait painting could never quite be the same.

Meantime the second coming of Lincoln is reading a biography, which will probably not make his speeches any more brilliant, they being the apex of brilliance as it is, but hey, it can't hurt.

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