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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465740603321

Autore

Peterson Merrill D

Titolo

Lincoln in American memory [[electronic resource] /] / Merrill D. Peterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994

ISBN

0-19-802304-9

1-4237-4064-5

1-60256-039-0

1-280-45118-1

0-19-509645-2

0-19-988002-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (493 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/092

B

Soggetti

Presidents - America

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Ill. on lining papers.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Apotheosis; 2 Shapings in the Postwar Years; Lincoln, Reconstruction, and the South; Book, Portraits, and Monuments; The Early Biographers: Herndon and Others; 3 Filling Up the Image; The Flood of Reminiscence; Aspects of Character; First Culmination: Nicolay and Hay and Others; 4 To the Afterwar Generation; Lincolniana: The Collectors and Ida Tarbell; The Political Lincoln; The Negroes' Lincoln; The Centennial; 5 Themes and Variations; The International Lincoln; Temple and Icon; Religion; Ancestry; Controversies Old and New; 6 From Memory to History

Organizing the Lincoln EnterpriseSecond Culmination: Sandburg, Beveridge, and Others; The Minor Affair; The Historians' Lincoln; 7 Zenith; ""What Would Lincoln Do?""; Historians' Encounters; Civil Rights and Civil Religion; Lincoln at 150; 8 Lincoln Everlasting; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the



president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, ""sorrow--indescribable sorrow"" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln's body was carried by a special funeral train to Springfield, Illinois, stopping in major cities along the way; perhaps a million people viewed the remains as memorial orations rang out and the world chorused its sincere condolences. It was the apotheosis of the martyred President--the beginning of the transformation of a man into a mythic hero. In Li