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American Icons

The Battle of Lincoln

Thomas Edison once joked that he figured out a hundred ways not to invent a light bulb. The same could be said of the Lincoln Memorial. Kurt Andersen talks to historians, a sculptor, and writer Sarah Vowell about the memorial.

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Studio 360 is a co-production of Public Radio International and WNYC New York Public Radio, and is funded in part by Ken and Lucy Lehman, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, and DK Eyewitness Travel. Studio 360's American Icons series is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Our series on creativity and science is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Our series on Underground Heroes is supported in part by the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

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