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,are nearly 200 statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated. A few years ago, Jim Percoco, a history teacher with a passion for both Lincoln and public sculpture...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Holzer, Harold. |
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Fordham University Press, 2008. |
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreward / Harold Holzer -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Photographs -- Chapter 1: Charlotte's Seed: Thomas Ball's Emancipation Group / Freedman's Monument (1876), Washington, D.C. -- Chatper 2: The Hero of Hoosierdom: Paul Manship's Lincoln the Hoosier Youth (1932), Fort Wayne, Indiana -- Chapter 3: A Different Kind of Civil War: George Grey Barnard's Lincoln (1917), Cincinnati, Ohio -- Chapter 4: Contemplative Statesmanship: Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Standing Lincoln (1887), Chicago, Illinois -- Chapter 5: Lincoln of Gethsemane: Gutzon Borglum's Seated Lincoln (1911), Newark, New Jersey -- Chapter 6: Lincoln the Mystic: James Earle Fraser's Lincoln (1930), Jersey City, New Jersey -- Chatper 7: A Lincoln for the Masses: Daniel Chester French's Seated Lincoln (1922), Washington, D.C. -- Afterward -- Appendix 1: Other Lincoln Memorials of Note -- Appendix 2: State-by-State Breakdown of Lincoln Sculptures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets,are nearly 200 statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated. A few years ago, Jim Percoco, a history teacher with a passion for both Lincoln and public sculpture, set off to see what he might learn about some of these monumentsGwhat they meant when they were unveiled, and what they mean to us today. The result is this captivating book, a fascinating chronicle of four summers on the road looking for Lincoln stories in statues of marble and bronze. | ||
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| 590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Monuments. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Influence. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Anecdotes. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Percoco, James A. -- Travel -- United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Monuments -- United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Historic sites -- United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sculptors -- United States -- History. | |
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