Author: William Tufnell SabinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"The Land Mourneth" the Death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States
Author: William Tufnell SabinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
Author: Richard Wightman FoxPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393247244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"[A]n astonishingly interesting interpretation…Fox is wonderfully shrewd and often dazzling." —Jill Lepore, New York Times Book Review Abraham Lincoln remains America’s most beloved leader. The fact that he was lampooned in his day as "ugly and grotesque" only made Lincoln more endearing to millions. In Lincoln’s Body, acclaimed cultural historian Richard Wightman Fox explores how deeply, and how differently, Americans—black and white, male and female, Northern and Southern—have valued our sixteenth president, from his own lifetime to the Hollywood biopics about him. Lincoln continues to survive in a body of memory that speaks volumes about our nation.
"The Land Mourneth" The Death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States
Author: William T. SabinePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265360880
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Excerpt from "The Land Mourneth" The Death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States: A Sermon, Delivered in the Church of the Covenant, on Sunday Evening, April 16th, 1865 On her day of greatest joy, the nation bows her head in deepest grief. Not over a dis honored flag not over a. Defeated army not over a navy dismantled, scattered or destroyed 3 not over a rebellion triumphant but over her dear dead President, the nation sheds her bitter tears The man whom she hath loved as she never loved another man, save one; the man to whom she owed adobt of gratitude which every rolling year of all her coming history will only make more manifest the man who hath done more than any man to purge her of iniquity, to vindicate her honor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A The Land Mourneth The Death Of Abraham Lincoln, President Of The United States: A Sermon Delivered In The Church Of The Covenant, On Sunday Evening
Author: William Tufnell SabinePublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781011607730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
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The Land Mourneth the Death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States
Author: William T (William Tufnell) SabinePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015369153
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
Author: Terry AlfordPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631495615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
“Here is Lincoln in the Bardo—for real. You couldn’t make it up—necromancers, mad actors, frauds, true believers, and, in the middle, the greatest President.” —Sidney Blumenthal, author of The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet—and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President Abraham Lincoln, in the most significant assassination in American history. The murder, however, did not come without warning—in fact, it had been foretold. In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written about Lincoln to focus on the president’s fascination with Spiritualism, and to demonstrate how it linked him, uncannily, to the man who would kill him. Abraham Lincoln is usually seen as a rational, empirically-minded man, yet as acclaimed scholar and biographer Terry Alford reveals, he was also deeply superstitious and drawn to the irrational. Like millions of other Americans, including the Booths, Lincoln and his wife, Mary, suffered repeated personal tragedies, and turned for solace to Spiritualism, a new practice sweeping the nation that held that the dead were nearby and could be contacted by the living. Remarkably, the Lincolns and the Booths even used the same mediums, including Charles Colchester, a specialist in “blood writing” whom Mary first brought to her husband, and who warned the president after listening to the ravings of another of his clients, John Wilkes Booth. Alford’s expansive, richly-textured chronicle follows the two families across the nineteenth century, uncovering new facts and stories about Abraham and Mary while drawing indelible portraits of the Booths—from patriarch Julius, a famous actor in his own right, to brother Edwin, the most talented member of the family and a man who feared peacock feathers, to their confidant Adam Badeau, who would become, strangely, the ghostwriter for President Ulysses S. Grant. At every turn, Alford shows that despite the progress of the age—the glass hypodermic syringe, electromagnetic induction, and much more—death remained ever-present, and thus it was only rational for millions of Americans, from the president on down, to cling to beliefs that seem anything but. A novelistic narrative of two exceptional American families set against the convulsions their times, In the Houses of Their Dead ultimately leads us to consider how ghost stories helped shape the nation.
Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A Memorial Lincoln Bibliography: Being an Account of Books, Eulogies, Sermons ... Engravings, Medals, Etc., Published Upon Abraham Lincoln ... Comprising a Collection in the Possession of the Compiler, A. Boyd. (Pt. 1. Bibliographia Lincolniana: an Account of the Publications Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln ... with Notes and an Introduction by Charles H. Hart.-Pt. 2. Lincoln Bibliography: Being an Account of Biographie, Eulogies ... Published Upon Abraham Lincoln. By A. Boyd.).
Author: Andrew Boyd (Compiler and publisher of directories)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Address on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States
Author: John Davidson ((Of Elizabeth, N.J.))Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Author: Andrew Boyd