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Lincoln's Body - A Cultural History (Hardcover)
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Lincoln's Body - A Cultural History (Hardcover)
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In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose,
Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and
downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us. The very
roughness of Lincoln's appearance made him seem all the more
common, one of us-as did his sense of humor about his own awkward
physical nature. Nineteenth-century African Americans felt deep
affection for their "liberator" as a "homely" man who did not hold
himself apart. During Reconstruction, Southerners felt a nostalgia
for the humility of Lincoln, whom they envisioned as a
"conciliator." Later, teachers glorified Lincoln as a symbol of
nationhood that would appeal to poor immigrants. Monument makers
focused not only on the man's gigantic body but also on his
nationalist efforts to save the Union, downplaying his emancipation
of the slaves. Among both black and white liberals in the 1960s and
1970s, Lincoln was derided or fell out of fashion. More recently,
Lincoln has once again been embodied (as both idealist and
pragmatist, unafraid of conflict and transcending it) by
outstanding historians, by self-identified Lincolnian president
Barack Obama, and by actor Daniel Day-Lewis-all keeping Lincoln
alive in a body of memory that speaks volumes about our nation.
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