Huffington Magazine Issue 26 | Page 87

Exit 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 I