I always enjoyed “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” but my sharpest memory of her has to do with General Stonewall Jackson, of all people!  Before I wrote The Real Lincoln, published fifteen years ago this March, I was quite the “Civil War” history buff.  I had read hundreds of books about all the battles, generals, etc.; signed up for a lecture series at the Smithsonian in D.C. where James McPherson and all the card-carrying members of the Lincoln Cult held court; attended academic conferences; and even went on some guided tours of battlefields in Virginia and Gettysburg, Pa. One of … Continue reading My Peculiar Mary Tyler Moore Memory