With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

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