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Students shine at ‘Lincoln’ book launch

More than 15,000 books have been written about U.S. President Abraham Lincoln over many decades, so publisher Mikel Miller admitted he was somewhat skeptical when Guadalajara-based author and teacher Michael Hogan told him he wanted to add another one to this mammoth collection.

But when Hogan pitched the proposed theme of his book – Lincoln’s relationship with Mexico over two decades in the mid 1800s – “I was hooked,” Miller told an overspill audience packing the American School Library for the launch of the 322-page paperback tome Tuesday evening.

“The role of books is to inform, educate and entertain and ‘Abraham Lincoln and Mexico’ does all three,” Miller said.  “But it also has the potential to change the way people think about relationships between the United States and Mexico.” 

Noting that the book “corrects many previously held misconceptions and perceptions” of U.S. history, Miller speculated that this change in thinking will come about mostly as educators and students use the book as supplementary classroom material.  “There are four million 11th grade students in the United States each year and all of them are required to take U.S. history,” Miller pointed out.     

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