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Title: A great IDEA for a book.
Review: A parallel life of the two great antagonists of the Civil War ought to make for an exciting book. Unfortunatly, this is not it. This project cried out for someone with the gifts andd insights of a Plutarch..or a Shelby Foote. unfortunatly, the resulting text is turgid, wooden, and lacking in philosophical depth. The struggle between Lincoln and Davis was a a struggle of Philosophies and of spiritual ideals, a clash between rival understandings of America, and even of the human condition. However, that is conveyed in this well intentioned, but flawed volume.
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