Lincoln in American Memory - Softcover

Peterson, Merrill D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195096452 ISBN 13: 9780195096453

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

'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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0195096452
• ISBN 13: 9780195096453
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 498