Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas (Paperback)

""Lincoln's Smile" demonstrates why Alan Trachtenberg has been the leading scholar in American studies for more than four decades." --Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University  Alan Trachtenberg has always been interested in cultural artifacts that register meanings and feelings that Americans share even when they disagree about them. Some of the most beloved ones--like the famous last photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken at the time of his second inaugural--are downright puzzling, and it is their obscure, riddlelike aspects that draw his attention in the scintillating essays of "Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas." With matchless authority, Trachtenberg moves from daguerreotypes to literary texts to subjects as diverse as Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the early works of Lewis Mumford.

General

Imprint:	Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Alan Trachtenberg
Dimensions:	201 x 160 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-8090-6573-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8090-6573-8
Barcode:	9780809065738

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