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James M. McPherson spoke for a later generation of scholars when he asserted in 1988 that Lincoln’s entire, public inaugural journey might have been a mistake, because in his effort to avoid a careless remark or slip of the tongue that might inflame the crisis further, the president-elect indulged in platitudes and trivia, producing an unfavorable impression on those who were already disposed to regard the ungainly president-elect as a commonplace prairie lawyer.

Harold Holzer

James M. McPherson spoke for a later generation of scholars when he asserted in 1988 that Lincoln’s entire, public inaugural journey might have been a mistake, because in his effort to avoid a careless remark or slip of the tongue that might inflame the crisis further, the president-elect indulged in platitudes and trivia, producing an unfavorable impression on those who were already disposed to regard the ungainly president-elect as a commonplace prairie lawyer.

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About Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer (born February 5, 1949) is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the American Civil War Era. He serves as director of Hunter College's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. Holzer previously spent twenty-three years as senior vice president for external affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York before retiring in 2015.