mr. saunders' novel. through lincoln's experience and the graveyard walks mr. saunders tasks with deciding whether suffering, regret, or warfare are good or bad, but whether these things are practical, are they purposeful, do the serve us, i will we take action? roger bev vince iii instructs us, all we can do is what we should. saunders gives us the additional gift of visiting with lynn lib, a president who whose shoulders these moral questions could truly rest, reminding us what it looks like when a president could serve as the moral compass of a nation. >> my grandmother would have loved this book . i'm sure her ghost does. even more, she would have loved teaching it. thank you on her behalf. mr. george saunders is the author of nine books, including tenth of december, a finalist for the national book award and won to prize for best work of fiction in english, and the story paris, he has received macarthur and guggenheim awards in 2013 he was name one of world's 100 most influential people by "time magazine." he create inside a creating writing program at syra

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