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Summers with Lincoln : Looking for the Man in the Monuments.
Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly 200 statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated. A few years ago, anticipating the bicentennial of Lincoln?s birth in 2009, Jim Percoco, a his...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bronx :
Fordham University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS; 1 Charlotte's Seed: Thomas Ball's Emancipation Group / Freedmen's Monument (1876), Washington, D.C.; 2 The Hero of Hoosierdom: Paul Manship's Lincoln the Hoosier Youth (1932), Fort Wayne, Indiana; 3 A Different Kind of Civil War: George Grey Barnard's Lincoln (1917), Cincinnati, Ohio; 4 Contemplative Statesmanship: Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Standing Lincoln (1887), Chicago, Illinois; 5 Lincoln of Gethsemane: Gutzon Borglum's Seated Lincoln (1911), Newark, New Jersey.
- 6 Lincoln the Mystic: James Earle Fraser's Lincoln (1930), Jersey City, New Jersey7 A Lincoln for the Masses: Daniel Chester French's Seated Lincoln (1922), Washington, D.C.; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX 1. Other Lincoln Memorials of Note; APPENDIX 2. State-by-State Breakdown of Lincoln Sculptures; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.