. >> nathaniel hawthorne piece you mentioned a few minutes ago. chiefly about war matters, about a peaceable man. he takes this, hawthorne takes this trip in 1862 to washington. and what's his purpose? >> this is a fascinating piece. nathaniel hawthorne, the the founders and early contributors to the magazine was a great exception. he was very ambivalent about slavery, about abolition. and he wasn't. and he was very skeptical of this war effort. and the whole premise of this piece is that i'm going to set out for washington to sort of see what all this hub bub is about and he writes a super sill kwrous account of washington, including abraham lincoln. terribly offended lincoln doesn't show up in time because he's having his breakfast and he leaves hawthorne sitting there. >> another writer offended by lincoln. >> another guy. this really is -- i mean, we're talking about one of the great writes. this is a terrible piece of journalism which makes it fascinate to go read. he meets mcclellan and is impressed with his manley bearing. he says, no, all