Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History

Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History

by Richard Wightman Fox
Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History

Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History

by Richard Wightman Fox

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Overview

"[A]n astonishingly interesting interpretation…Fox is wonderfully shrewd and often dazzling." —Jill Lepore, New York Times Book Review

Abraham Lincoln remains America’s most beloved leader. The fact that he was lampooned in his day as "ugly and grotesque" only made Lincoln more endearing to millions. In Lincoln’s Body, acclaimed cultural historian Richard Wightman Fox explores how deeply, and how differently, Americans—black and white, male and female, Northern and Southern—have valued our sixteenth president, from his own lifetime to the Hollywood biopics about him. Lincoln continues to survive in a body of memory that speaks volumes about our nation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393247244
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 02/02/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 432
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Richard Wightman Fox is a professor of history at the University of Southern California and the author of Jesus in America and Trials of Intimacy, among other books. He lives in Venice, California.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Part 1 The Public Body (1840-1865)

1 Lincoln's Body Politic 3

2 Last Words, Last Breath 24

3 The Martyr and His Relics 47

4 African Americans and Their Emancipator 74

5 Rolling Funeral, Living Corpse 97

Part 2 The Enshrined Body (1865-1909)

6 The First Lincoln Memorials 127

7 Monuments for the Ages 147

8 Black Emancipation, White Reunion 164

9 Celebrating the Centenary of 1909 184

Part 3 The National Body (1909-2015)

10 Solidifying the Lincoln Cult: Two Memorials 213

11 The Hero on Screen, from Griffith to Gage 238

12 Standing in Lincoln's Shadow 256

13 Reviving the Emancipator 279

14 Lincoln Sightings at the Bicentenary: Obama, Disney, Spielberg 300

A Note On Sources 329

Acknowledgments 337

Abbreviations Used in Notes 341

Notes 342

Illustration Credits 387

Index 389

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