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“I have shaken hands with Uncle Abe,” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in a letter to his wife on March 16, 1862. He was referring, of course, to President Lincoln. That day, Hawthorne left the White House feeling ambivalent about Lincoln. But that wasn’t surprising. Hawthorne tended to feel ambivalent about almost everything. At 57, the great …
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