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Aspen Ideas Festival 2008

The 2008 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2008

Lincoln's union

Broadcast: Midday, 07/23/2008, 12:00 p.m.

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During this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, Douglas Wilson, co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, discussed Abraham Lincoln's life, writings and desire to keep the country intact.

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  • Douglas Wilson: Co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, award-winning author of "Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words."

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