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Month: March 2014

Abraham Lincoln: “I don’t need no ghostwriter”

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Courtesy, Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln is not known as a great writer. He is known as one of America’s greatest presidents. Yet he penned one of the most memorable pieces of writing in history: the Gettysburg Address. He loved writing and understood its power to provoke and inspire and create change. He even wrote…

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