Thursday 20 September 2018

He has most unwarrantably abused the privilege which all politicians have of being ugly

Not content to deride his intelligence, hostile publications focused on his appearance. "Lincoln is the leanest, lankest, most ungainly mass of legs, arms and  hatchet-face ever strung upon a single frame. He has most unwarrantably abused the privilege which all politicians have of being ugly."

D.K. Goodwin, Team of Rivals (2005), 257-8

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