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Emancipating Lincoln - The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory (Hardcover)
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Emancipating Lincoln - The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory (Hardcover)
Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
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Emancipating Lincoln seeks a new approach to the Emancipation
Proclamation, a foundational text of American liberty that in
recent years has been subject to woeful misinterpretation. These
seventeen hundred words are Lincoln's most important piece of
writing, responsible both for his being hailed as the Great
Emancipator and for his being pilloried by those who consider his
once-radical effort at emancipation insufficient and half-hearted.
Harold Holzer, an award-winning Lincoln scholar, invites us to
examine the impact of Lincoln's momentous announcement at the
moment of its creation, and then as its meaning has changed over
time. Using neglected original sources, Holzer uncovers Lincoln's
very modern manipulation of the media - from his promulgation of
disinformation to the ways he variously withheld, leaked, and
promoted the Proclamation - in order to make his society-altering
announcement palatable to America. Examining his agonizing
revisions, we learn why a peerless prose writer executed what he
regarded as his greatest act in leaden language. Turning from word
to image, we see the complex responses in American sculpture,
painting, and illustration across the past century and a half, as
artists sought to criticize, lionize, and profit from Lincoln's
endeavor. Holzer shows the faults in applying our own standards to
Lincoln's efforts, but also demonstrates how Lincoln's obfuscations
made it nearly impossible to discern his true motives. As we
approach the 150th anniversary of the Proclamation, this concise
volume is a vivid depiction of the painfully slow march of all
Americans - white and black, leaders and constituents - toward
freedom.
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