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I published a fictionalized telling of this story 6 years ago and somehow they used a drawing of Shea Whigham.
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The Trickster of Mentor, Part I | Issues, Issue 27, July 2019 by David Kennedy in the June issue of The Write Launch
It was in a mood of intense irritation that Senator Roscoe Conkling arrived in Chicago. Chet Arthur had been sent out in advance, his bulk trundled into a railway carriage like an overstuffed suitcase...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I published a fictionalized telling of this story 6 years ago and somehow they used a drawing of Shea Whigham.
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This has serious Return of the Obra Dinn vibes.
June 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This has serious Return of the Obra Dinn vibes.
I wrote a slightly fictionalized version of the Conkling-Arthur side of the story a few years back. Hope this can tide folks over after rereading Candice Millard: thewritelaunch.com/2019/10/i-am...
I Am a Stalwart: Part One | Issue 31, November 2019, Issues Archive by David Kennedy in the October 29, 2019 issue of The Write Launch
The first gathering of the Stalwarts was, of necessity, an intimate one. It had been far too long since the social business of politics had occurred under the supervision of Kate Chase. Mary Todd Linc...
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May 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I wrote a slightly fictionalized version of the Conkling-Arthur side of the story a few years back. Hope this can tide folks over after rereading Candice Millard: thewritelaunch.com/2019/10/i-am...
I wrote a lightly fictionalized accounting of that very incident. Hope you enjoy: thewritelaunch.com/2019/01/spur...
Spur Up Your Pegasus | Issue 22, February 2019, Issues Archive by David Kennedy in the January 28, 2019 issue of The Write Launch
Kate had yet to arrive at a satisfactory arrangement with her husband. Sprague had insisted that Kate spend the summer of ’seventy-nine at the estate in Canonchet, near Narragansett, so that he might ...
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May 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I wrote a lightly fictionalized accounting of that very incident. Hope you enjoy: thewritelaunch.com/2019/01/spur...
Nathan Clifford, who actually made it a point to never start a sentence with any of the following words: a, an, the. You can read his awful concurrence in the fundamentally terrible opinion of US v Cruikshank, 92 US 542 (1875).
February 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Nathan Clifford, who actually made it a point to never start a sentence with any of the following words: a, an, the. You can read his awful concurrence in the fundamentally terrible opinion of US v Cruikshank, 92 US 542 (1875).
Think how big those frogs would be had we simply invested back in 1935. Finally a biodegradable form of transportation.
January 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Think how big those frogs would be had we simply invested back in 1935. Finally a biodegradable form of transportation.
And for those interested in how the Chief Justice position became open, here's the first chapter, where the last of Lincoln's Team of Rivals struggles with his mortality, with lasting damage to our civil rights laws.
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The Gilded Cage | Issue 87, September 2024 by David Kennedy in the September 4, 2024 issue of The Write Launch
The Chief Justice would not consent to die. He had felt the tremors first in his fingers, when the train had departed Niagara Falls, but dismissed the barely perceptible tingling as the motion of the ...
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November 24, 2024 at 10:45 PM
And for those interested in how the Chief Justice position became open, here's the first chapter, where the last of Lincoln's Team of Rivals struggles with his mortality, with lasting damage to our civil rights laws.
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Welcome, sir.
November 16, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Welcome, sir.