Hi, I found a tattered, yellowed book under a payphone at Los Angeles airport as I was about to come to Washington DC. Here was this book (Lincoln by Gore Vidal) left lovingly, it seemed , by someone who did not want to trash it. I read 10 chapters on the plane and also while taking the train ride home http://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Novel-Gore-Vidal/dp/0375708766
Lincoln is arriving in Washington DC (in the second page of the book) as President-elect, in a city carved out of Maryland, a Southern state. Talks are on about shifting the US capital from DC to Pennsylvania - if Maryland and Virginia leave the Union . DC itself is not yet the polished city, it now is. But has all the intrigues on reads in the current newspapers including DC Madams. A very different perspective on Lincoln - who is also a character in the story (fictional account) and speaks for himself - unlike Lincoln The Unknown, wrtitten by Dale Carnegie , which I read when at college, trying to improve my personality. Any comments on Lincoln? Umesh Sharma (I also did a crossword -spotting words - on US presidents, thanks to my fellow passenger, Ashley, who is a fashion-photographer/undergraduate student returning from LA after working there in a fashion company) Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/ http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ __________________________________________________________ Not happy with your email address?. Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now at Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
