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CULTURE
The
Greatest
Lincoln
Since
Lincoln
BY MALLIKA RAO
PHOTO OR ILLUSTRATION CREDIT TK
HUFFINGTON
12.09.12
N HER BIOGRAPHY,
Team Of Rivals: The
Political Genius of
Abraham Lincoln,
Doris Kearns Goodwin recounts
an anecdote that at first seems
impossible to link to a man who
never left the United States. In
1908, Leo Tolstoy, by then a famous writer, traveled to what he
called a “wild and remote” part of
the North Caucasus, a tribal region in Russia between the Caspian and Baltic Seas. On the request
of a local chief, Tolstoy told a
gathered group there stories of the
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