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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... scholars and authors for a public conference, with the title “Lincoln Reconsidered,” to lay out his case as soberly ... scholarly air, due largely to an unruly shock of white hair and the wire spectacles that are always slipping down his ...
... scholars and authors for a public conference, with the title “Lincoln Reconsidered,” to lay out his case as soberly ... scholarly air, due largely to an unruly shock of white hair and the wire spectacles that are always slipping down his ...
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... scholar on the work of David Hume, gave a dazzling presentation tracing Lincoln's corrosive effects through our history. “Americans are morally deficient for never having considered the evil of launching the bloodiest war of the ...
... scholar on the work of David Hume, gave a dazzling presentation tracing Lincoln's corrosive effects through our history. “Americans are morally deficient for never having considered the evil of launching the bloodiest war of the ...
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... scholars on both sides marshaled their arguments, flung facts here and there, and came up with one of two Lincolns: a racist, warmongering totalitarian, or a sentimental old poop—Mussolini, on the one hand, or Mister Rogers on the other ...
... scholars on both sides marshaled their arguments, flung facts here and there, and came up with one of two Lincolns: a racist, warmongering totalitarian, or a sentimental old poop—Mussolini, on the one hand, or Mister Rogers on the other ...
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... scholarly interpretation and personal partiality. I was looking for firmer ground. I wanted to know what we know ... Scholars differ—this is a phrase we will have to get used to—about the character of his father, Thomas, and next to ...
... scholarly interpretation and personal partiality. I was looking for firmer ground. I wanted to know what we know ... Scholars differ—this is a phrase we will have to get used to—about the character of his father, Thomas, and next to ...
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... Scholars differ on how precisely Lincoln, the “piece of floating driftwood,” happened to lodge up at New Salem. With a population that peaked at fewer than one hundred, it wasn't a boom town, exactly, but in the 1830s it had a fair ...
... Scholars differ on how precisely Lincoln, the “piece of floating driftwood,” happened to lodge up at New Salem. With a population that peaked at fewer than one hundred, it wasn't a boom town, exactly, but in the 1830s it had a fair ...
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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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