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17%OFFRichard Wightman Fox - Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History - 9780393065305 - V9780393065305
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Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History

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Description for Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History Hardcover. Even two hundred years after Abraham Lincoln's death, we, like Walt Whitman, "love the President personally." Num Pages: 416 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 250 x 35. Weight in Grams: 770.

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 ... Read more

Among both black and white liberals in the 1960s and 1970s, Lincoln was derided or fell out of fashion. More recently, Lincoln has once again been embodied (as both idealist and pragmatist, unafraid of conflict and transcending it) by outstanding historians, by self-identified Lincolnian president Barack Obama, and by actor Daniel Day-Lewis—all keeping Lincoln alive in a body of memory that speaks volumes about our nation.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393065305
SKU
V9780393065305
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Richard Wightman Fox
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.

Reviews for Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
"Fascinating…an astonishingly interesting interpretation…Fox [can be] wonderfully shrewd and often dazzling."
Jill Lepore - The New York Times Book Review "Highly readable…Mr. Fox skillfully depicts how varied have been the uses that Americans have made of their greatest president…he deserves special credit."
Michael Burlingame - Wall Street Journal "With subtle analysis and supple writing, preeminent cultural historian Richard ... Read more

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