Rendering Unto Lincoln

“Now he belongs to the ages,” Edwin Stanton is supposed to have said, when he learned of President Lincoln’s death.  In a trivial sense at least, Stanton was obviously correct.  We have Lincoln’s face on the five-dollar bill—a bill that used to be worth more than . . .

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