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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... Washington Post, I went to see Bragdon Bowling, who had been stoking the controversy like a steam engine. Bowling popped up in every story I read. He was gathering petitions, settingup Web sites, pestering politicians with mailand phone ...
... Washington Post, I went to see Bragdon Bowling, who had been stoking the controversy like a steam engine. Bowling popped up in every story I read. He was gathering petitions, settingup Web sites, pestering politicians with mailand phone ...
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... Washington in ways unthinkable to the country's founders. The Northern victory was therefore the triumph of a cosmopolitan, commercial culture, controlled by Big Business, over a Southern culture of farms and small towns that asked only ...
... Washington in ways unthinkable to the country's founders. The Northern victory was therefore the triumph of a cosmopolitan, commercial culture, controlled by Big Business, over a Southern culture of farms and small towns that asked only ...
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... Washington at his inauguration, another surrendered by Cornwallis at Yorktown— and reproductions of famous pistols, and mounted replicas of “famous canes,” and tiny cannons adorned with plaques. There was enough stained glass to fill ...
... Washington at his inauguration, another surrendered by Cornwallis at Yorktown— and reproductions of famous pistols, and mounted replicas of “famous canes,” and tiny cannons adorned with plaques. There was enough stained glass to fill ...
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... Washington a week before to visit Ulysses S. Grant at City Point, Virginia, a river port thirty miles downstream of the Confederate capital, from which vantage he could watch at close range the final progress of federal forces ...
... Washington a week before to visit Ulysses S. Grant at City Point, Virginia, a river port thirty miles downstream of the Confederate capital, from which vantage he could watch at close range the final progress of federal forces ...
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... Washington on horseback, though if he did no one reported what he said. What we know of this momentous visit is laced with such empty spaces, and into them later generations poured their own views of the great warrior-statesman who had ...
... Washington on horseback, though if he did no one reported what he said. What we know of this momentous visit is laced with such empty spaces, and into them later generations poured their own views of the great warrior-statesman who had ...
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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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