Lincoln Tells a Joke: How Laughter Saved the President (and the Country)

Poor Abraham Lincoln! His life was hardly fun at all. A country torn in two by war, citizens who didn’t like him as president, a homely appearance—what could there possibly be to laugh about? And yet …

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