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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... political grievance. The tuttutters took surveys and compiled the sad data of what has come to be called “historical illiteracy”: fully two-thirds of graduating high school seniors can't name the half century in which the Civil War was ...
... political grievance. The tuttutters took surveys and compiled the sad data of what has come to be called “historical illiteracy”: fully two-thirds of graduating high school seniors can't name the half century in which the Civil War was ...
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... political views would be pretty much indistinguishable from Mario Cuomo's. The gifted journalist Joshua Wolf Shenk, who has struggled with clinical depression, wrote Lincoln's Melancholy, proving that the key to Lincoln's achievements ...
... political views would be pretty much indistinguishable from Mario Cuomo's. The gifted journalist Joshua Wolf Shenk, who has struggled with clinical depression, wrote Lincoln's Melancholy, proving that the key to Lincoln's achievements ...
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... politicians, rich people, and other well-wired doers of public good, who unanimously supported the statue as both a tourist attraction and a statement of civic virtue—were caught unawares. It came as a surprise to them, as it had to me ...
... politicians, rich people, and other well-wired doers of public good, who unanimously supported the statue as both a tourist attraction and a statement of civic virtue—were caught unawares. It came as a surprise to them, as it had to me ...
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... politicians with mailand phone calls, and encouraging others to do the same. He had enlisted Thomas DiLorenzo, the author of a recently published anti-Lincoln book called The Real Lincoln, to help him gather scholars and authors for a ...
... politicians with mailand phone calls, and encouraging others to do the same. He had enlisted Thomas DiLorenzo, the author of a recently published anti-Lincoln book called The Real Lincoln, to help him gather scholars and authors for a ...
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... politicians, the politically correct historians, they've been doing this all across the country, and now they're doing it right here in Richmond.” I said a statue of Lincoln didn't sound to me like it was demonizing anybody. “To worship ...
... politicians, the politically correct historians, they've been doing this all across the country, and now they're doing it right here in Richmond.” I said a statue of Lincoln didn't sound to me like it was demonizing anybody. “To worship ...
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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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