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The Lincoln assassination : crime and punishment, myth and memory /

Written at the end of the Lincoln bicentennial year, and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial, this book offers studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction (which was more complex than has been previously believed), and the iconography that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Lincoln Forum
Otros Autores: Holzer, Harold, Symonds, Craig L., Williams, Frank J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:North's Civil War.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lincoln's deathbed in art and memory : the "rubber room" phenomenon / Harold Holzer and Frank J. Williams
  • Abraham Lincoln's New York City funeral / Richard E. Sloan
  • Not everybody mourned Lincoln's death / Thomas P. Lowry
  • Lincoln's chief avenger : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt / Elizabeth D. Leonard
  • The Lincoln assassination in law and lore / Frank J. Williams
  • Writing history in a vacuum : the Lincoln assassination / Thomas R. Turner
  • "Let the stain of innocent blood be removed from the land" : the military trial of the Lincoln conspirators / Edward Steers, Jr.
  • Process versus truth in the case of the Lincoln conspiracy / Michael W. Kauffman
  • The martyr and the myth : the Lincoln nobody knows / Richard Nelson Current.