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(Click white arrow to play) Way back in 1848, a tall, lanky one-term Rep from Illinois came up to New England to stump for the Whig Candidate, Zachary Taylor. Twelve years later, Abraham Lincoln returned, this time to stump for himself! Whenever The Rail Splitter stood up to speak, Eastern audiences were horrified by his tall, ungainly appearance, along with his high-pitched Western accent: a crude combination of Jed Clampett and Frankenstein! But once Abe got rolling, he soon had'm mesmerized. Join Scott, Tom and James and listen now as we disect this zany lecture (or should we say "Lec-tchuh") by acclaimed author, Thomas Turner.
Extra Content! The complete lecture given by Thomas Turner about Lincoln
For all those presidential trivia junkies out there, do we have a show for you! So how did The Great Emancipator fair in New England on his two visits? What course did his son "Robeht" flunk at "Hahvehd"? Who saved Robert Lincoln's life at a railway station (hint: his last name was Boothe!) And was Robert Lincoln cursed, being around as many as four different presidential assassinations? What about Mrs. Bixby, recipient of the famous Bixby letter from Lincoln, due to the death of all five of her sons in the war? Was she really running a whorehouse in Boston, and did all five of her sons really die, or did several of them desert, one of them for the confederate army? Find all this out and learn how to talk like a "New Englandah" as we take you on a strange and wonderful ride. Buy The Companion
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