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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... Salem, the village on a bluff above the Sangamon River where Lincoln spent his young manhood. Its inhabitants abandoned New Salem long before Lincoln died, and a commemorative collection of log cabins had been rebuilt on the site a ...
... Salem, the village on a bluff above the Sangamon River where Lincoln spent his young manhood. Its inhabitants abandoned New Salem long before Lincoln died, and a commemorative collection of log cabins had been rebuilt on the site a ...
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... Salem. Something similar was happening in the country at large, I think. The great historical amnesia, certified and lamented nowadays by professional educators and tut-tutters of all kinds, was just settling in. Fewer and fewer courses ...
... Salem. Something similar was happening in the country at large, I think. The great historical amnesia, certified and lamented nowadays by professional educators and tut-tutters of all kinds, was just settling in. Fewer and fewer courses ...
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... Salem in the mid-sixties, for example; twenty years later the number was reduced by half. But more than simple amnesia was at work. There was something willful in the forgetting. Americans, particularly the well off and overschooled ...
... Salem in the mid-sixties, for example; twenty years later the number was reduced by half. But more than simple amnesia was at work. There was something willful in the forgetting. Americans, particularly the well off and overschooled ...
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... Salem State Park, twenty miles outside Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, Illinois. On the Circuit, by Anna Hyatt Huntington, was installed in 1963, not long before my family's first trip to the Lincoln shrines of Central Illinois. That ...
... Salem State Park, twenty miles outside Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, Illinois. On the Circuit, by Anna Hyatt Huntington, was installed in 1963, not long before my family's first trip to the Lincoln shrines of Central Illinois. That ...
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... Salem because Richmond shook me up. Ilearned soon enough that I shouldn't be shocked that Lincoln was used as a proxy to score political points; this had been so from the moment Booth squeezed the trigger and made him a martyr. What ...
... Salem because Richmond shook me up. Ilearned soon enough that I shouldn't be shocked that Lincoln was used as a proxy to score political points; this had been so from the moment Booth squeezed the trigger and made him a martyr. What ...
Contenido
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38 | |
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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