Lincoln's Body
A Cultural History
In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright ugly of aspect came to mean so much to us.The very roughness of Lincoln's appearance made him seem all the more common, one of us-as did his sense of humor about his own awkward physical nature. Nineteenth-century African Americans felt deep affection for their liberator as a homely man who did not hold himself apart. During Reconstruction, Southerners felt a nostalgia for the humility of Lincoln, whom they envisioned as a conciliator. Later, teachers glorified Lincoln as a symbol of nationhood that would appe…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-06530-5
- EAN: 9780393065305
- Produktnummer: 16428607
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Masse: H16.7 cm x B25.0 cm x D3.5 cm 770 g
- Abbildungen: 35 illustrations
- Gewicht: 770
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Richard Wightman Fox is a professor of history at the University of Southern California and the author of Jesus in America and Trials of Intimacy, among other books. He lives in Venice, California.
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