Summers with Lincoln: looking for the man in the monuments

Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly 200 statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated. A few years ago, anticipating the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth in 2009, Jim Percoco,...

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1. Verfasser: Percoco, James A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Fordham Univ. Press 2008
Ausgabe:1. ed.
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Zusammenfassung:Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly 200 statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated. A few years ago, anticipating the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth in 2009, Jim Percoco, a history teacher with a passion for both Lincoln and public sculpture, set off to see what he might learn about some of these monuments what they meant when they were unveiled, and what they mean to us today.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XXXVI, 241 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780823228959

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