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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461418203321

Autore

Hogan Jackie <1967->

Titolo

Lincoln, Inc [[electronic resource] ] : selling the sixteenth president in contemporary America / / Jackie Hogan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011

ISBN

9781442209565

1442209569

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Disciplina

973.7092

Soggetti

Public opinion - United States

Market segmentation - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President; Chapter 2: Mr. Lincoln's Coattails: Marketing, Memorabilia, and Presidential Tourism; Chapter 3: Packaging the President: Lincoln Biographies; Chapter 4: Telling Fictions: Lincoln in Literature, Television, and Film; Chapter 5: What Would Lincoln Do? The Sixteenth President in Twenty-First-Century Politics; Chapter 6: A Is for Abe: Teaching Lincoln; Chapter 7: Lincoln under Glass: The Great Emancipator in American Museums; Chapter 8: Selling Lincoln: Who Do We Think We Are?; Notes; Bibliography; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;""><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Lincoln, Inc.</span><span> is an engaging examination of the uses and abuses of the sixteenth president's image in America today. Whether in political campaigns, blockbuster films, school pageants, or soft drink advertisements, the use of the Lincoln image reveals who we think we are as a nation, and who we wish we could be.</span></span></span>