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Author Lew Wallace\u2015a Civil War general, politician, and diplomat\u2015conducted meticulous research into the ancient world to bring a vivid immediacy to\u00a0his characters and settings, from life as a Roman galley slave, to the living death of exile, to a Jerusalem leper colony. The novel’s countless admirers included President James A. Garfield, a former professor of literature, who told the author, “With this beautiful and reverent book you have lightened the burden of my daily life.”<\/p>\n