There is a new book just published that purports to prove that the nation's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, was gay. I admit I have not read the book but I did read the Time magazine review that basically trashed the research and I went by the book store and read parts of it and the attached letters from Lincoln to a friend of his. (The letters showed nothing).
Some great Americans like Washington, Lincoln, Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt, Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh are safely fixed on pedestals and therefore anything that would attempt to revise this fixed image will probably fail.
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