He was always skilled at that. Yet since Drum-Taps, published the month following Lincoln’s murder (as he always called the assassination), his heart had been inclined more in the direction of prose. It seemed to me that around 1865 something important had taken place to change him profoundly— in...
I had been guest-starring on various talk shows both regional and nationwide and was in demand in person also. I found I possess natural abilities for such more public forms of discourse than that to which I had accustomed myself already. Too, I made a determination that I actually responded favo...