The author, William Marvel, lambastes the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois as "loud, cheap, and mawkish" and "a cross between a chintzy wax museum and the Hall of Horrors at the Fryeburg Fair."
He also criticizes fixations over historical memorabilia and monuments as draining money that could be used to preserve historic battlefields. Restoration of Civil War battle flags also comes in for scorn.
Pauline Burke had been the secretary of Father William P. Haas for about four years when Haas announced in December 1970 that he would be resigning as president of Providence College.
He later applied to the pope to laicize him so he could marry Burke, both of which happened in August 1973.
