LINCOLN ANTHOLOGY Great Writers on His Life Legacy LOA #192 Hardcover w/Slipcase

Description: For your consideration is this copy of The Lincoln Anthology : Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now edited by Harold Holzer The Lincoln Anthology brings together for the first time 110 insightful and imaginative selections by a diverse array of 95 writers from William Cullen Bryant to E. L. Doctorow. Here is a composite portrait of our greatest president told by the journalists, biographers, satirists, essayists, novelists, clergymen, poets, play-wrights, historians, memoirists, and statesmen who have shaped our understanding of Lincoln and his complex and crucial legacy over the last 150 years. The collection includes fascinating firsthand observations by Emerson and Hawthorne, satirical sketches by Artemus Ward and Petroleum V. Nasby, and surprising contemporary commentary by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Karl Marx, George Templeton Strong, and Horace Greeley. Moving eulogies by Henry Ward Beecher and George Bancroft join poetic tributes from James Russell Lowell, Henrik Ibsen, and Walt Whitman. Dramatically contrasting views of Lincoln are provided by his presidential secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, and his law partner, William H. Herndon. Lincoln’s views and deeds on race and emancipation are examined by Frederick Douglass with keen critical candor, while his democratic virtues are extolled by Whitman in luminous prose. As Lincoln faded from personal memory his legacy grew, becoming more deeply resonant of abiding American themes—and also more contested. The Lincoln Anthology traces this evolution through the works of Lincoln’s path-breaking biographer Ida Tarbell; through the defining poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Vachel Lindsay, and Edgar Lee Masters; through the political rivalry of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, as they vie to lay claim to Lincoln’s political mantle; and through the powerful writings of Booker T. Washington, Robert R. Moton, and W.E.B. Du Bois, who testify to the continued power of Lincoln’s memory for African Americans struggling with the unfulfilled promise of emancipation. Later in the 20th century, Carl Sandburg, Robert E. Sherwood, and Mario Cuomo discover in Lincoln a democratic hero for new periods of crisis and conflict; Jacques Barzun, Marianne Moore, and Garry Wills explore his greatness as a writer; and Delmore Schwartz, Edmund Wilson, and Lerone Bennett Jr. make provocative contributions to the anti-Lincoln tradition. As the book draws to the present, Richard Slotkin, Adam Braver, and E. L. Doctorow exemplify the renewed vigor of fictional depictions of Lincoln at the beginning of the 21st century, and Barack Obama lays claims to an unfinished legacy as he announces his bid for the office that Lincoln so memorably transformed. Hardcover protected inside ivory slipcase, published 2009 by The Library of America. Stated first printing. Volume 192. 964 pages. ISBN: 978-1-59853-043-8. In like new, barely used condition, with tight spine, and original publisher flier. Slipcase has wear, corner dings, and tearing. Please see photos #14, #15, #16, #17, and #18. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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