The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning.

Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.

Whenever I read a Lincoln book, I look to see if there's anything new, and in this case there was.