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pscot

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11. Mon ami!

Reply to closeupready (Reply #10)

Wed Oct 3, 2012, 10:08 AM

Oct 2012

I started reading Vidal when he died. I'm sorry I waited so long. He really found his metier when he turned to American history. Lincoln is brilliant, both as novel and as history.

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