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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... told him so. This is the latest move in a scheme to demonize the Confederate soldier. The Park Service, the politicians, the politically correct historians, they've been doing this all across the country, and now they're doing it right ...
... told him so. This is the latest move in a scheme to demonize the Confederate soldier. The Park Service, the politicians, the politically correct historians, they've been doing this all across the country, and now they're doing it right ...
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... told me. “And we're assuming all the risk, for goodness sake.” Already, he said, the statue had cost the society $225,000, and sales thus far had totaled only around $40,000. To the Sons this sounded like profiteering, but the attorney ...
... told me. “And we're assuming all the risk, for goodness sake.” Already, he said, the statue had cost the society $225,000, and sales thus far had totaled only around $40,000. To the Sons this sounded like profiteering, but the attorney ...
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... told his readers he'd seen Lincoln linger at the building with “tears pouring down his cheeks,” though he must have been the only witness, since no other account mentions this touching detail. Rising up the hill from the wharves, acre ...
... told his readers he'd seen Lincoln linger at the building with “tears pouring down his cheeks,” though he must have been the only witness, since no other account mentions this touching detail. Rising up the hill from the wharves, acre ...
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... told me that roughly three hundred people had registered for “Lincoln Reconsidered,” drawn from more than a dozen states, and none seemed to mind the drowsy, languid air of the setting. For even with modernity's depredations downtown ...
... told me that roughly three hundred people had registered for “Lincoln Reconsidered,” drawn from more than a dozen states, and none seemed to mind the drowsy, languid air of the setting. For even with modernity's depredations downtown ...
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... told me, now realized that racism had played a much smaller role in Southern history than previously thought. “You know why Southern legislators enacted Jim Crow laws after the war?” he asked. I said I could guess. “Well,” he said with ...
... told me, now realized that racism had played a much smaller role in Southern history than previously thought. “You know why Southern legislators enacted Jim Crow laws after the war?” he asked. I said I could guess. “Well,” he said with ...
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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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