Lincoln in American Memory

Zusatztext 'Merrill Peterson gives a splendid account of how Lincoln has been used and abused during the past 129 years ... Mr Peterson does a remarkable job of covering the most important developments! and he manages to deliver a flavour of the rest ... this is a book that needed to be written and certainly deserves to be read.'The Economist Informationen zum Autor Merrill D. Peterson is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Virginia. His books include The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (winner of the Bancroft Prize), The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, Calhoun, and Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation. Klappentext Historian Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American thought and imagination from the hour of his death to the present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society. Zusammenfassung Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in American thought and imagination from the hour of his death to present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society.

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• Authors: Merrill D Peterson, Merrill D. Peterson, Merrill D. (Emeritus Jefferson Professor Peterson, Merrill D. (Emeritus Jefferson Professor of History Peterson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1995
• EAN: 9780195096453
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509645-3
• No. of pages: 488
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History