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Referenced as Lincoln's biographer who wrote an approximately 10,000-page biography that was so long parts were cut and put online. Described as covering Lincoln's life in extensive detail.

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Referenced when describing the chaotic scene at Lincoln's inauguration, comparing it to something Dickens would have enjoyed writing about, specifically 'like a scene from Martin Chuzzlewit.'

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Referenced when comparing Vice President Andrew Johnson's drunken behavior at the inauguration to 'Gussie Fink-Nottle after drinking the vodka-laced orange juice in P.G. Wodehouse' - a character from Wodehouse's Jeeves novels.

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Referenced as a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln. The speaker mentions 'I literally know nothing about her beyond what I read in George Saunders's novel. She made me more sympathetic.' This is likely referring to 'Lincoln in the Bardo.'