"Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he sa…"

"Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us."

"We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet…"

"Current is also outraged by a reference to Lincoln's bowels, whose 'frequency,' he tells us, 'cannot be documented.' …"

"What is going on here is a deliberate revision by Current not only of Lincoln but of himself in order to serve the sa…"

"Basler finds my Lincoln the 'phoniest historical novel I have ever had the pleasure of reading.'... Also, 'more than …"

"Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing bec…"

"Everything's wrong on Wikipedia."

"Professor Richard N. Current fusses, not irrelevantly, about the propriety of fictionalising actual political figures…"

"I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy su…"