“Swanson JAMES L. SWANSON, an attorney and Lincoln scholar, has held a number of government and think-tank posts in Washington, D.C. He has written about history, the presidency, the Constitution, popular culture, books, the arts, and other subjects for a variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, American Heritage, and Smithsonian magazine. He has lectured widely at the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Newberry Library, and other scholarly instit...utions, and at literary, historical, and arts clubs across the nation. He is the coauthor of Lincoln’s Assassins: Their Trial and Execution, and he serves on the advisory committee of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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