The Passion of Lew Wallace
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Which happened to be a bust
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/08/21/ben-hur-is-a-big-expensive-box-o…
He sounds like a very interesting man! What an eventful life; a lawyer, a Civil War general, advisor to the Mexican Army, governor of New Mexico Territory, and ambassador to Turkey!
Tyler is a pastor in Olympia, WA and works in State government.
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Hoping to shed more light than heat..
Found it when we cleaned out Mom’s place
Hope everyone read this article about Lew Wallace. It is well worth the time.
David R. Brumbelow
We have a cheap copy of Ben-Hur at home which I picked up at a thrift store several years ago. I will go home and start reading it this evening!
Tyler is a pastor in Olympia, WA and works in State government.
For those interested, there is debate about whether he pardoned Billy the Kid. A few years back a letter was found which was a correspondence written by Billy the Kid to Lew Wallace.
http://www.indianahistory.org/feature-details/a-billy-the-kid-mystery-s…
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/08/22/ben_hur_flops_at_the_box…
Ben-Hur, the big-budget cinematic retelling of the novel by Lew Wallace, has become the latest blockbuster to have its wheels fall off at the box office this summer. The film, which was co-produced by Paramount and MGM, cost more than $100 million to make but recouped just $11.4 million during its opening weekend, across 3,804 theaters.
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