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Attack On “a Most Abandoned Hypocrite”

November 2023
1min read


Not long ago the historian Douglas L. Wilson discovered in an obscure, short-lived Illinois newspaper a stinging satire on a local political figure. It is long, fierce, and very funny—and it is almost certainly the work of the young Abraham Lincoln.

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