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Grupo Ubú: El Edificio De La Identidad En Barriendo Sombras, Cesar Valverde
Grupo Ubú: El Edificio De La Identidad En Barriendo Sombras, Cesar Valverde
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"The Power To Hurt": Lincoln's Early Use Of Satire And Invective, Robert Bray
"The Power To Hurt": Lincoln's Early Use Of Satire And Invective, Robert Bray
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How did Abraham Lincoln become a great speaker and writer? How did he get from doggerel in a copybook to the mastery of the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the speeches of the presidential years? This is an abiding mystery in Lincoln biography, and its obscurity will probably never be dispelled fully.1Still, we cannot help wondering, and so we look for early signs of precocity and power in the boy "back home in Indiana" during the 1820s and the young man of the New Salem, Illinois, years from 1831 to 1837. We continue to search and speculate despite few and questionable sources …