"It's one of those figures that everybody knows who he is, so they think they know who he is, and they don't. They just know a name. They just know an idea. What he was, finally, in my view, was that he created the United States as we know it, he created the nation state as we know it."
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Lawyers from the United StatesAbolitionistsPoliticians from IllinoisAbraham LincolnPeople of the American Civil War
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Gore Vidal, as quoted in Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013), documentary film
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Abraham Lincoln
1809 – 1865
Präsident der USA (1861-1865)
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