Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's AmericaOpen Road + Grove/Atlantic, 2008 M04 15 - 304 páginas “Brilliant . . . Ferguson’s guided tour of the often amusing, sometimes bizarre ways we remember Lincoln today . . . is heartening and even inspiring.” —Bill Kristol, Time Abraham Lincoln was our greatest president and perhaps the most influential American who ever lived. But what is his place in our country today? In Land of Lincoln, Andrew Ferguson packs his bags and embarks on a journey to the heart of contemporary Lincoln Nation, where he encounters a world as funny as it is poignant, and a population as devoted as it is colorful. In small-town Indiana, Ferguson drops in on the national conference of Lincoln presenters, 175 grown men who make their living (sort of) by impersonating their hero. He meets the premier collectors of Lincoln memorabilia, prized items of which include Lincoln’s chamber pot, locks of his hair, and pages from a boyhood schoolbook. He takes his wife and children on a trip across the long-defunct Lincoln Heritage Trail, a driving tour of landmarks from Lincoln’s life. This book is an entertaining, unexpected, and big-hearted celebration of Lincoln’s enduring influence on our country—and the people who help keep his spirit alive. “A hilarious, offbeat tour of Lincoln shrines, statues, cabins and museums . . . Mr. Ferguson maps it expertly, with an understated Midwestern sense of humor that Lincoln, master of the funny story, would have been the first to appreciate.” —William Grimes, The New York Times |
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... healing was not revealed to Mary Baker Eddy until a year after Lincoln's death. In 1891, the famed (at the time) seer Nettie Colburn Maynard published along study called Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? She answered land of lincoln 7.
... healing was not revealed to Mary Baker Eddy until a year after Lincoln's death. In 1891, the famed (at the time) seer Nettie Colburn Maynard published along study called Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? She answered land of lincoln 7.
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... terrible father himself, spoiling his children and ignoring their mother. Some evidence—Mary Todd's accelerating mental deterioration, for example—suggested he might have given his wife syphilis. He had no intellectual 24 andrew ferguson.
... terrible father himself, spoiling his children and ignoring their mother. Some evidence—Mary Todd's accelerating mental deterioration, for example—suggested he might have given his wife syphilis. He had no intellectual 24 andrew ferguson.
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... Mary Todd, a wellborn woman from Lexington, Kentucky, whom he had met during her frequent visits to a married sister in Springfield. They were to have four children, all boys—Robert, Edward, Willie, and Tad—only one of whom, firstborn ...
... Mary Todd, a wellborn woman from Lexington, Kentucky, whom he had met during her frequent visits to a married sister in Springfield. They were to have four children, all boys—Robert, Edward, Willie, and Tad—only one of whom, firstborn ...
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... Mary disliked each other, and his dark view of her, and of the Lincoln marriage, has worked to Mary's disadvantage ever since. But a few facts are undeniable. Their four children attest to some degree of intimacy, and husband and wife ...
... Mary disliked each other, and his dark view of her, and of the Lincoln marriage, has worked to Mary's disadvantage ever since. But a few facts are undeniable. Their four children attest to some degree of intimacy, and husband and wife ...
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... Mary and the beginnings of worldly success; others place it at the end of the decade, when his political career seemed to have run its course and he was once again thrown back on his private resources. Whenever the biographers see it ...
... Mary and the beginnings of worldly success; others place it at the end of the decade, when his political career seemed to have run its course and he was once again thrown back on his private resources. Whenever the biographers see it ...
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Chapter 3 | 67 |
The Kingmakers Wife the Emotional Engineer | 90 |
The Magic of Stuff | 117 |
A Sea of Lincolns | 152 |
Abe Lincoln and the Secret of Success | 167 |
Hot on the Trail | 199 |
A Whole Lotta Lincoln | 231 |
In Defense of the Icon | 259 |
Postscript | 269 |
Acknowledgments | 275 |
Photo Credits | 281 |
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