Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
a[A]n astonishingly interesting interpretation. . . . Fox is wonderfully shrewd and often dazzling.aaJill Lepore, New York Times Book Review In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright quglyq 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 usaas did his sense of humor about his own awkward physical nature. Nineteenth-century African Americans felt deep affection for their qliberatorq as a qhomelyq man who did not hold himself apart. During Reconstruction, Southerners felt a nostalgia for the humility of Lincoln, whom they envisioned as a qconciliator.q Later, teachers glorified Lincoln as a symbol of nationhood that would appeal to poor immigrants. Monument makers focused not only on the manas gigantic body but also on his nationalist efforts to save the Union, downplaying his emancipation of the slaves. Among both black and white liberals in the 1960s and 1970s, Lincoln was derided or fell out of fashion. More recently, Lincoln has once again been embodied (as both idealist and pragmatist, unafraid of conflict and transcending it) by outstanding historians, by self-identified Lincolnian president Barack Obama, and by actor Daniel Day-Lewisaall keeping Lincoln alive in a body of memory that speaks volumes about our nation.see also specific newspapers New York, 109 New York, N.Y.: draft riots in, 84, 91 hatred of Confederacy in, 55a58 immigrants in, 188 Lincoln centenary in, 185, 186, 187a92 Lincoln essay contest in, 188a89, 193 Lincoln funeral procession in, ... and Catholic Register, 85 New York Herald, xvi, 8, 17, 31, 44, 45, 46, 51, 60, 64 , 103, 139, 347n, 350n, 356n Lincolna#39;s homeliness mocked in, 10a11 New York Journal of Commerce, 47 New York Telegraph, 239 New York Times, 16a17, 44, anbsp;...
| Title | : | Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History |
| Author | : | Richard Wightman Fox |
| Publisher | : | W. W. Norton & Company - 2015-02-09 |
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