Author: George B. Forgie
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393056952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Argues that Lincoln came to office at a time when American politicians, uncertain that the Union could survive its sectional differences, appealed to sentiment and urged Americans to think of the Union as an extended family
Author: George B. Forgie
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393056952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Argues that Lincoln came to office at a time when American politicians, uncertain that the Union could survive its sectional differences, appealed to sentiment and urged Americans to think of the Union as an extended family
Author: Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198023043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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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 Lincoln in American Memory, historian Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American imagination from the hour of his death to the present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society--and into the character of Lincoln himself. Westerners, Easterners, even Southerners were caught up in the idealization of the late President, reshaping his memory and laying claim to his mantle, as his widow, son, memorial builders, and memorabilia collectors fought over his visible legacy. Peterson also looks at the complex responses of blacks to the memory of Lincoln, as they moved from exultation at the end of slavery to the harsh reality of free life amid deep poverty and segregation; at more than one memorial event for the great emancipator, the author notes, blacks were excluded. He makes an engaging examination of the flood of reminiscences and biographies, from Lincoln's old law partner William H. Herndon to Carl Sandburg and beyond. Serious historians were late in coming to the topic; for decades the myth-makers sought to shape the image of the hero President to suit their own agendas. He was made a voice of prohibition, a saloon-keeper, an infidel, a devout Christian, the first Bull Moose Progressive, a military blunderer and (after the First World War) a military genius, a white supremacist (according to D.W. Griffith and other Southern admirers), and a touchstone for the civil rights movement. Through it all, Peterson traces five principal images of Lincoln: the savior of the Union, the great emancipator, man of the people, first American, and self-made man. In identifying these archetypes, he tells us much not only of Lincoln but of our own identity as a people.
Author: Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher:
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Category : Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Author: Warren S. Brown
Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN: 1890151300
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 445
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Sheds light on the age-old question: What is wisdom and where does it come from? This book also presents research on brain functioning, drawn from observing individuals with damage to specific neural areas, to suggest the importance of integration between hemispheres of the brain to comprehend complex situations in a way that may be termed wise.
Author: David Lowenthal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521851424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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"First published as The past is a foreign country, 1985"--Title page verso.
Author: James M. McPherson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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In "We Cannot Escape History" a remarkable group of top Lincoln and Civil War scholars come together to explore the meaning of Lincoln for the destiny of the United States. They focus on Lincoln's view of American history and on his legacy - for Americans and for the world. In the process they deepen the reader's understanding of and appreciation for the complexity of the problems Lincoln faced and for the genius of his leadership, which surmounted these obstacles and preserved the United States as one nation indivisible while purging it of slavery, which had marred the democratic and egalitarian promise of America from the beginning. The contributors develop themes including Lincoln's conception of the United States as the last best hope for the preservation of democratic government and a republican polity, his view of American history and its meaning, his international impact, Lincoln and slavery, Lincoln and the uses of political power, and Lincoln as commander-in-chief in time of war.
Author: David Zarefsky
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027269904
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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In the United States, political argumentation occurs in institutionalized settings and the broader public forum, in efforts to resolve conflict and efforts to foster it, in settings with time limits and controversies that extend over centuries. From the ratification of the U.S. Constitution to the presidency of Barack Obama, this book contains twenty studies of U.S. political argumentation, grouped under four themes: early American political discourse, Abraham Lincoln’s political argumentation, argumentation about foreign policy, and public policy argumentation since the 1960s. Deploying methods of rhetorical criticism, argument analysis and evaluation, the studies are rich in contextual grounding and critical perspective. They integrate the European emphasis on politics as an argumentative context with the U.S. tradition of public address studies. Two essays have never before been published. The others are retrieved from journals and books published between 1979 and 2014. The introductory essay is new for this volume.
Author: Jerry Griswold
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421414589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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In this revised edition, which is aimed at students, scholars, and general readers, Griswold has updated the text throughout and added a new preface, introduction, and select bibliography.
Author: Cynthia S. Jordan
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807818398
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Second Stories offers an innovative reexamination of selected texts by seven major figures in American literature. Combining close reading with a powerful ideological argument, Cynthia Jordan demonstrates that a concern with the patriarchal politics of language informs both the thematic content and overall shape of much of the fiction of these writers.
Author: Jochen Wierich
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271050322
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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"Explores history painting in the United States during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, as exemplified by Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851). Includes the work of artists such as Daniel Huntington, Lilly Martin Spencer, and Eastman Johnson"--Provided by publisher.
