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Harold (Solist) Holzer

Summers with Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments

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Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly 200 statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated.A few years ago, anticipating the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth in 2009, Jim Percoco, a history teacher with a passion for both Lincoln and public sculpture, set off to see what he might learn about some of these monuments-what they meant when they were unveiled, and what they mean to us today. The result is this captivating book, a fascinating chronicle of four summers on the road looking for Lincoln stories in statues of marble and bron… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8232-2895-9
  • EAN: 9780823228959
  • Produktnummer: 3484011
  • Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 241 S.
  • Masse: H23.3 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.8 cm 612 g
  • Gewicht: 612

Über den Autor


James A. Percoco is an award-winning history teacher at West Springfield High School in Springfield, Virginia, and is History Educator-in-Residence at American University. He was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission's Advisory Board.

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