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 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 52
Página xi
... courses in American history were taught less and less frequently, and those that survived were recast as exercises in multicultural special-pleading or litanies of political grievance. The tuttutters took surveys and compiled the sad ...
... courses in American history were taught less and less frequently, and those that survived were recast as exercises in multicultural special-pleading or litanies of political grievance. The tuttutters took surveys and compiled the sad ...
Página xii
... course, Lincoln didn't fall from the nation's esteem altogether. We can't shake him. Indeed, he's fared better than many other of our traditional heroes. He's still on the penny, for one thing. You can still find discussion groups and ...
... course, Lincoln didn't fall from the nation's esteem altogether. We can't shake him. Indeed, he's fared better than many other of our traditional heroes. He's still on the penny, for one thing. You can still find discussion groups and ...
Página xiv
... course in Lincoln Studies, which I happily pass on in chapter 2. Then I started moving again, and I didn't really stop till I reached the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—and this is where, conveniently enough, I wind up in chapter 10. The ...
... course in Lincoln Studies, which I happily pass on in chapter 2. Then I started moving again, and I didn't really stop till I reached the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—and this is where, conveniently enough, I wind up in chapter 10. The ...
Página 1
... course. The street grid is the same, though, and if you're in the right mood and know what to look for, the lineaments of the earlier city begin to surface, like the outline of a scuttled old scow rising through the shallows of a pond ...
... course. The street grid is the same, though, and if you're in the right mood and know what to look for, the lineaments of the earlier city begin to surface, like the outline of a scuttled old scow rising through the shallows of a pond ...
Página 10
... course, we thought perhaps a few diehards might object here or there. But nothing like this... this ugliness.” He made a gesture toward the window. Out on the street a well-fed fellow in a black T-shirt and low-slung Relaxed Fitjeans ...
... course, we thought perhaps a few diehards might object here or there. But nothing like this... this ugliness.” He made a gesture toward the window. Out on the street a well-fed fellow in a black T-shirt and low-slung Relaxed Fitjeans ...
Contenido
1 | |
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Abe’s Abraham Lincoln American Antigoni asked biography cabin called Carnegie Cellini Civil collection collectors coln course Dale Carnegie didn’t downtown Emancipation Proclamation Esche farm father Ford’s Frank friends Gettysburg Gettysburg Address hand he’s Heritage Trail Herndon historians Hodgenville Hoosiers Hull House icon Ida Tarbell Illinois Indiana Kentucky kids kind Kline knew Land of Lincoln later Lincoln Heritage Trail Lincoln Memorial living logs look Louise Louise’s Mary Mary’s Memorial moved museum National never Orphan Tour Park Service parking lot political president Real Lincoln Richmond Robert Todd Lincoln Salem scholars sits slavery society’s Springfield stands story stuff talk tell There’s thing thought tion told took tourist town turned visitors walked Washington what’s White House wife workshop wrote young