''The Lincoln Hunters'' is a

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novel by American writer Wilson Tucker.

Plot

The novel, set in the year 2578, details the story of a historian from the oppressive society of that year, who travels back in time to record Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech of May 19, 1856, in

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. It contains a vivid description of Lincoln in the early stages of his career, seen through the eyes of a future American who feels that Lincoln and his time compare very favorably with the traveler's own.

Legacy

The book is mentioned in ''

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'', a novel by

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that also centers around time travel and an assassinated president. Furthermore, King's protagonist time travels to 1958—the year "''Hunters''" was published—to alter the timeline by 1963.

References

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