Author:
Johnston, Steven, author.
ImprintLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
Descriptionxix, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Lincoln's ambiguity -- Lincoln's decisionism and the politics of elimination -- Democratic ironies of Lincoln's cinematic exceptionalism -- A "humble offering": the (first) Lincoln memorial -- Lincoln's persistent racial ambivalence: colonization -- What to the Indian is the Gettysburg Address? -- American exceptionalism or American narcissism? The second inaugural -- Lincoln's tragic revenge.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"In Lincoln: The Ambiguous Icon, Steven Johnston interrogates Lincoln's political thought and practice, reinterpreting the Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural, Lincoln's exercise of sovereign power and commitment to colonization, and some of the more popular depictions of Lincoln in film, monuments, and memorials that both conceal and reveal the terrible ambiguity of this marginally understood American figure." --Back cover.
