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The national joker : Abraham Lincoln and the politics of satire / Todd Nathan Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Todd Nathan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Humor.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Political satire, American--History--19th century.
- Political satire, American.
- Political culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Political culture.
- United States--Politics and government--1861-1865--Humor.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale, [Illinois] : Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Abraham Lincoln's sense of humor proved legendary during his own time and remains a celebrated facet of his personality to this day.Indeed, his love of jokes--hearing them, telling them, drawing morals from them--prompted critics to dub Lincoln "the National Joker." The political cartoons and print satires that mocked Lincoln often trafficked in.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Abraham Lincoln and the American satiric tradition
- "This reminds me of a little joke": from humor to satire
- "Little big man": modesty and attack in Lincoln's writings and speeches
- The rail-splitter president
- "Abraham Africanus the first": the limits of preemptive self-satire
- "A Hoosier Michael Angelo": the politics of Lincoln's physical appearance in popular media.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-3423-2
- OCLC:
- 950613779
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