fox richard wightman 1945 (1 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. very good dust-jacket, cover price $2895, very good hardcover with brown spine and white boards, boards are slightly warped. nicely INSCRIBED over 4-lines to a recipient with first name only who is mentioned in the acknowledgments on page 338 and SIGNED by Richard / meaningful inscription to a colleague who helped. FOX, RICHARD WIGHTMAN. Lincoln's body: a cultural history. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xvi, 416pp., . Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us.The very roughness of Lincoln's appearance made him seem all the more common, one of us--as did his sense of humor about his own awkward physical nature. - CONTENTS: Part I. The public body (1840-1865) -- Lincoln's body politic -- Last words, last breath -- The martyr and his relics -- African Americans and their emancipator -- Rolling funeral, living corpse -- Part II. The enshrined body (1865-1909) -- The first Lincoln memorials -- Monuments for the ages -- Black emancipation, White reunion -- Celebrating the Centenary of 1909 -- Part III. The national body (1909-2015) -- Solidifying the Lincoln cult: two memorials -- The hero on screen, from Griffith to Gage -- Standing in Lincoln's shadow -- Reviving the emancipator -- Lincoln sightings at the bicentenary: Obama, Disney, Spielberg. ISBN 9780393065305.