Lincoln in American memory / Merrill D. Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Merrill D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--America.

Presidents.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Influence.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (493 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Li

Contents:

Contents; 1 Apotheosis; 2 Shapings in the Postwar Years; Lincoln, Reconstruction, and the South; Book, Portraits, and Monuments; The Early Biographers: Herndon and Others; 3 Filling Up the Image; The Flood of Reminiscence; Aspects of Character; First Culmination: Nicolay and Hay and Others; 4 To the Afterwar Generation; Lincolniana: The Collectors and Ida Tarbell; The Political Lincoln; The Negroes' Lincoln; The Centennial; 5 Themes and Variations; The International Lincoln; Temple and Icon; Religion; Ancestry; Controversies Old and New; 6 From Memory to History

Organizing the Lincoln EnterpriseSecond Culmination: Sandburg, Beveridge, and Others; The Minor Affair; The Historians' Lincoln; 7 Zenith; ""What Would Lincoln Do?""; Historians' Encounters; Civil Rights and Civil Religion; Lincoln at 150; 8 Lincoln Everlasting; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Ill. on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-802304-9

1-4237-4064-5

1-60256-039-0

1-280-45118-1

0-19-509645-2

0-19-988002-6

OCLC:

475955838