But Herndon is a most unreliable narrator in all things about Mary, since they never got along.
What got Herndon in even more trouble with his biography was claiming that Lincoln was a free-thinker and certainly no Christian.
This brings us to the core conceptual issue, which Herndon, Ash and Pollin argue greatly biases our results.
As I say, critics of Rogoff-Reinhart--including Herndon et al--have been rather overstating two things: 1.
Herndon's Lincoln by William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik Am I forgetting that Lincoln was a lawyer too?
From which it will be seen that the little Mexican had also become somewhat corrupted by her year at Herndon Hall.
Herndon was merely the first of several who discerned on close familiarity Lincoln's inward inflexibility.
Mr. Decamp was interviewed by Mr. Herndon regarding Lincoln's religious views in July, 1887.
Mrs. Herndon's expression was noncommittal, while her eyes surveyed the lieutenant.
Herndon's boiling apparatus gave two thousand feet, and, what is worse, the lieutenant believed it.
