Summary
ORONO - Peter Hoff opened the book in his hands and turned to a page. He looked up at a group of 25 people who had gathered Thursday afternoon to hear the former University of Maine president speak at the University Club.
Hoff, now a University of Maine System professor, was holding E.L. Doctorow's novel "The March," which is about Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's march through the South during the Civil War. The page Hoff had turned to was one on which Doctorow had written about a meeting between Sherman and then-Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.See the full content of this document
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Ums Chancellor-President Dynamic Examined
"Sherman looks at Stanton and can't believe what a total idiot this bureaucrat from Washington is. And Stanton fails to appreciate what a warrior he has in Sherman," Hoff said. "For anybody who ever wanted to be a fly on the w...
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