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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195096452
ISBN-13
9780195096453
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72695
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Book Title
Lincoln in American Memory
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1995
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Presidents & Heads of State
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Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
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Trade Paperback
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1.3 in
Item Weight
24 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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93-001675
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20
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"A masterpiece. It should be required reading for all Americans."--Robert Tortorella, Felician College, "Here is a brilliant work, the product of a diligent, insightful mind. the style is pleasing, graced by felicitous phrases, and lucid. No other work is quite like it."--History, "Doing for Abraham Lincoln what he did for Thomas Jefferson in his classicThe Jefferson Image in the American Mind, Merrill Peterson offers the best andmost encyclopedic assessment of the vast Lincoln literature ever written. Herealizes that Lincoln, perhaps unlike Jefferson, belongs to the people and notjust to the historians, so he has mapped the streams of both biography andfolklore. In these pages academics labor cheek by jowl with preachers, poets,and politicians to forge the most important personage in American collectivememory. The result is a work without parallel among the thousands of works onLincoln--a trustworthy guide to that enormous store of history and myth."--MarkE. Neely, Jr., author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Fate of Liberty: AbrahamLincoln and Civil Liberties, "Peterson has done a superb job of telling us precisely what it is thatLincoln means to us and how that has come to be so. Among the thousands uponthousands of books that have been written about this greatest of all Americans,Lincoln in American Memory occupies a very high place."--Jonathan Yardley in theWashington Post, "It is a brilliant work. I shall praise it lavishly."--Norman Ferris, Middle Tennessee State University, "This is a book that needed to be done, and Merrill Peterson was just theman to do it. The great skill with which he once delineated the Jefferson imageis again displayed in this splendid contribution to American culturalhistory."--Don E. Fehrenbacher, Lincoln in Text and Context: CollectedEssays, "At the moment of the president's death, Secretary of War Edwin Stantonexclaimed: 'Now he belongs to the ages.' This book tells how and suggests whyLincoln belonged, and still belongs, to American memory. For the first time wehave a central part of a fascinating story. Vintage merrill Peterson, writtenwith measured empathy."--Gabor Boritt, Civil War Institute, GettysburgCollege, "Doing for Abraham Lincoln what he did for Thomas Jefferson in his classic The Jefferson Image in the American Mind, Merrill Peterson offers the best and most encyclopedic assessment of the vast Lincoln literature ever written. He realizes that Lincoln, perhaps unlike Jefferson, belongs to thepeople and not just to the historians, so he has mapped the streams of both biography and folklore. In these pages academics labor cheek by jowl with preachers, poets, and politicians to forge the most important personage in American collective memory. The result is a work without parallel among thethousands of works on Lincoln--a trustworthy guide to that enormous store of history and myth."--Mark E. Neely, Jr., author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, "Peterson's Lincoln in American Memory is an utterly fascinating work,some of it familiar but for the most part richly fresh in detail and highlyrevealing about the spontaneous and deeply felt creation of a truly democratichero. Peterson's book is a particular achievement because of the vastness of thematerials he has mastered, ranging from serious scholarship to elusive ephemera.Lincoln in American Memory is inspiring because the knowledge that politicalmalice and pettiness can be surmounted gives us cause to be hopeful that suchlessons of the past will be re-enacted. This is a profoundly absorbing andprovocative study."--Michael Kammen, Times-Mirror Research Scholar, Professor ofAmerican Studies, The Huntington Library, "A highly original, exhaustively researched, expertly organized, and surpassingly entertaining book. In lesser hands, such a detailed effort - balancing so many disparate voices - might easily have descended into the realm of 'The Book of Lists'. In Peterson's hands it becomes, instead, agripping look not only into history but into the making of history."--Harold Holzer, Illinois Historical Journal, "It is a brilliant work. I shall praise it lavishly."--Norman Ferris, Middle Tennessee State University "This volume makes for pleasant reading. Anyone interested in the subject of Abraham Lincoln will discover that this book belongs on his or her shelf of literature."--Lincoln Herald "Here is a brilliant work, the product of a diligent, insightful mind. the style is pleasing, graced by felicitous phrases, and lucid. No other work is quite like it."--History "Lincoln is a national treasure, and this book is worthy of him. Recommended."--Library Journal "Peterson has done a superb job of telling us precisely what it is that Lincoln means to us and how that has come to be so. Among the thousands upon thousands of books that have been written about this greatest of all Americans, Lincoln in American Memory occupies a very high place."--Jonathan Yardley in the Washington Post, "This volume makes for pleasant reading. Anyone interested in the subjectof Abraham Lincoln will discover that this book belongs on his or her shelf ofliterature."--Lincoln Herald, "Peterson's Lincoln in American Memory is an utterly fascinating work, some of it familiar but for the most part richly fresh in detail and highly revealing about the spontaneous and deeply felt creation of a truly democratic hero. Peterson's book is a particular achievement because of thevastness of the materials he has mastered, ranging from serious scholarship to elusive ephemera. Lincoln in American Memory is inspiring because the knowledge that political malice and pettiness can be surmounted gives us cause to be hopeful that such lessons of the past will be re-enacted. This isa profoundly absorbing and provocative study."--Michael Kammen, Times-Mirror Research Scholar, Professor of American Studies, The Huntington Library, "This is a book that needed to be done, and Merrill Peterson was just the man to do it. The great skill with which he once delineated the Jefferson image is again displayed in this splendid contribution to American cultural history."--Don E. Fehrenbacher, Lincoln in Text and Context: CollectedEssays, "It is a brilliant work. I shall praise it lavishly."--Norman Ferris,Middle Tennessee State University "This volume makes for pleasant reading. Anyone interested in the subject of Abraham Lincoln will discover that this book belongs on his or her shelf of literature."--Lincoln Herald "Here is a brilliant work, the product of a diligent, insightful mind. the style is pleasing, graced by felicitous phrases, and lucid. No other work is quite like it."--History "Lincoln is a national treasure, and this book is worthy of him. Recommended."--Library Journal "Peterson has done a superb job of telling us precisely what it is that Lincoln means to us and how that has come to be so. Among the thousands upon thousands of books that have been written about this greatest of all Americans,Lincoln in American Memoryoccupies a very high place."--Jonathan Yardley in theWashington Post, "This volume makes for pleasant reading. Anyone interested in the subject of Abraham Lincoln will discover that this book belongs on his or her shelf of literature."--Lincoln Herald, "A masterpiece. It should be required reading for all Americans."--RobertTortorella, Felician College, "Abraham Lincoln has been more frequently and more widely remembered thanany other American, but he has been remembered in many different andcontradictory ways. Merrill Peterson, having mastered the vast and convolutedLincoln literature, presents a comprehensive, keenly perceptive, and highlyreadable history of Lincoln's reputation. This should be a prizewinningwork."--Richard N. Current, author of Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers fromthe Confederacy, "It is a brilliant work. I shall praise it lavishly."--Norman Ferris, Middle Tennessee State University "This volume makes for pleasant reading. Anyone interested in the subject of Abraham Lincoln will discover that this book belongs on his or her shelf of literature."-- Lincoln Herald "Here is a brilliant work, the product of a diligent, insightful mind. the style is pleasing, graced by felicitous phrases, and lucid. No other work is quite like it."-- History "Lincoln is a national treasure, and this book is worthy of him. Recommended."-- Library Journal "Peterson has done a superb job of telling us precisely what it is that Lincoln means to us and how that has come to be so. Among the thousands upon thousands of books that have been written about this greatest of all Americans, Lincoln in American Memory occupies a very high place."--Jonathan Yardley in the Washington Post, "Peterson has done a superb job of telling us precisely what it is that Lincoln means to us and how that has come to be so. Among the thousands upon thousands of books that have been written about this greatest of all Americans, Lincoln in American Memory occupies a very high place."--JonathanYardley in the Washington Post
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973.7092
Synopsis
Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, "sorrow--indescribable sorrow" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln's body was carried by a special funeral train to Springfield, Illinois, stopping in major cities along the way; perhaps a million people viewed the remains as memorial orations rang out and the world chorused its sincere condolences. It was the apotheosis of the martyred President--the beginning of the transformation of a man into a mythic hero. In Lincoln in American Memory , historian Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American imagination from the hour of his death to the present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society--and into the character of Lincoln himself. Westerners, Easterners, even Southerners were caught up in the idealization of the late President, reshaping his memory and laying claim to his mantle, as his widow, son, memorial builders, and memorabilia collectors fought over his visible legacy. Peterson also looks at the complex responses of blacks to the memory of Lincoln, as they moved from exultation at the end of slavery to the harsh reality of free life amid deep poverty and segregation; at more than one memorial event for the great emancipator, the author notes, blacks were excluded. He makes an engaging examination of the flood of reminiscences and biographies, from Lincoln's old law partner William H. Herndon to Carl Sandburg and beyond. Serious historians were late in coming to the topic; for decades the myth-makers sought to shape the image of the hero President to suit their own agendas. He was made a voice of prohibition, a saloon-keeper, an infidel, a devout Christian, the first Bull Moose Progressive, a military blunderer and (after the First World War) a military genius, a white supremacist (according to D.W. Griffith and other Southern admirers), and a touchstone for the civil rights movement. Through it all, Peterson traces five principal images of Lincoln: the savior of the Union, the great emancipator, man of the people, first American, and self-made man. In identifying these archetypes, he tells us much not only of Lincoln but of our own identity as a people., Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, "sorrow--indescribable sorrow" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln's body was carried by a special funeral train to Springfield, Illinois, stopping in major cities along the way; perhaps a million people viewed the remains as memorial orations rang out and the world chorused its sincerecondolences. It was the apotheosis of the martyred President--the beginning of the transformation of a man into a mythic hero. In Lincoln in American Memory, historian Merrill Petersonprovides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American imagination from the hour of his death to the present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society--and into the character of Lincoln himself. Westerners, Easterners, even Southerners were caught up in the idealization of the late President, reshaping his memory and laying claim to his mantle, as his widow, son,memorial builders, and memorabilia collectors fought over his visible legacy. Peterson also looks at the complex responses of blacks to the memory of Lincoln, as they moved from exultation at the endof slavery to the harsh reality of free life amid deep poverty and segregation; at more than one memorial event for the great emancipator, the author notes, blacks were excluded. He makes an engaging examination of the flood of reminiscences and biographies, from Lincoln's old law partner William H. Herndon to Carl Sandburg and beyond. Serious historians were late in coming to the topic; for decades the myth-makers sought to shape the image of the hero President to suit their own agendas. Hewas made a voice of prohibition, a saloon-keeper, an infidel, a devout Christian, the first Bull Moose Progressive, a military blunderer and (after the First World War) a military genius, a whitesupremacist (according to D.W. Griffith and other Southern admirers), and a touchstone for the civil rights movement. Through it all, Peterson traces five principal images of Lincoln: the savior of the Union, the great emancipator, man of the people, first American, and self-made man. In identifying these archetypes, he tells us much not only of Lincoln but of our own identity as a people., Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, "sorrow--indescribable sorrow" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln's body was carried by a special funeral train to Springfield, Illinois, stopping in major cities along the way; perhaps a million people viewed the remains as memorial orations rang out and the world chorused its sincere condolences. It was the apotheosis of the martyred President--the beginning of the transformation of a man into a mythic hero. In Lincoln in American Memory, historian Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American imagination from the hour of his death to the present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society--and into the character of Lincoln himself. Westerners, Easterners, even Southerners were caught up in the idealization of the late President, reshaping his memory and laying claim to his mantle, as his widow, son, memorial builders, and memorabilia collectors fought over his visible legacy. Peterson also looks at the complex responses of blacks to the memory of Lincoln, as they moved from exultation at the end of slavery to the harsh reality of free life amid deep poverty and segregation; at more than one memorial event for the great emancipator, the author notes, blacks were excluded. He makes an engaging examination of the flood of reminiscences and biographies, from Lincoln's old law partner William H. Herndon to Carl Sandburg and beyond. Serious historians were late in coming to the topic; for decades the myth-makers sought to shape the image of the hero President to suit their own agendas. He was made a voice of prohibition, a saloon-keeper, an infidel, a devout Christian, the first Bull Moose Progressive, a military blunderer and (after the First World War) a military genius, a white supremacist (according to D.W. Griffith and other Southern admirers), and a touchstone for the civil rights movement. Through it all, Peterson traces five principal images of Lincoln: the savior of the Union, the great emancipator, man of the people, first American, and self-made man. In identifying these archetypes, he tells us much not only of Lincoln but of our own identity as a people. More than thirty years ago, Peterson won the prestigious Bancroft Prize for The Jefferson Image in the American Mind. The New York Times Book Review hailed it as "an engrossing story of the uses and abuses of a great legend," saying that Peterson's writing is often "brilliant." This absorbing book follows in the footsteps of that landmark work, leading us on a revealing tour through our changing image of our greatest president--and our changing image of ourselves., In Lincoln in American Memory, historian Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American imagination from the hour of his death to the present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society--and into the character of Lincoln himself. Westerners, Easterners, even Southerners were caught up in theidealization of the late President, reshaping his memory and laying claim to his mantle. Peterson also looks at the complex responses of blacks to the memory of Lincoln, as they moved from exultation at the end of slaveryto the harsh reality of free life amid deep poverty and segregation. Through it all, Peterson traces five principle images of Lincoln: the savior of the Union, the Great Emancipator, man of the people, first American, and self-made man. In identifying these archetypes, he tells us much not only of Lincoln but of our own identity as a people. More than thirty years ago, Peterson won the prestigious Bancroft Prize for The Jefferson Image in the American Mind. This absorbing bookfollows in the footsteps of that landmark work, leading us on a revealing tour through our changing image of our greatest president--and our changing image of ourselves.
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