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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Fox, Richard Wightman, 1945- author.     Subjects     Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Influence.     Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Public opinion.     Political culture -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Fox, Richard Wightman, 1945- author.       by title:      Lincoln's body : a c...         MARC Display

Lincoln's body : a cultural history / Richard Wightman Fox. by Fox, Richard Wightman, 1945- author. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c2015. Subjects Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Influence.   Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Public opinion.   Political culture -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9780393065305 (hbk.) : 0393065308 (hbk.) Description:  xvi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Part I. The public body (1840-1865) -- Lincoln's body politic -- Last words, last breath -- The martyr and his relics -- African Americans and their emancipator -- Rolling funeral, living corpse -- Part II. The enshrined body (1865-1909) -- The first Lincoln memorials -- Monuments for the ages -- Black emancipation, White reunion -- Celebrating the Centenary of 1909 -- Part III. The national body (1909-2015) -- Solidifying the Lincoln cult: two memorials -- The hero on screen, from Griffith to Gage -- Standing in Lincoln's shadow -- Reviving the emancipator -- Lincoln sightings at the bicentenary: Obama, Disney, Spielberg. Requests:  0 Summary:  Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us. The very roughness of Lincoln's appearance made him seem all the more common, one of us--as did his sense of humor about his own awkward physical nature.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 973.7092 Fo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.7092 Fox Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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