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

• Autore: Peterson Merrill D
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (493 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.7/092; B
• Soggetto topico: Presidents - America
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Lincoln in American memory
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465740603321
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