Mister Lincoln: A Drama in Two Acts

by Herbert Mitgang

Herbert Mitgang has spent a quarter of a century studying Lincoln. He wanted to create in this one-man show a Lincoln who was historically accurate, but also one who was human: "What had to be avoided was a feeling by the audience that it was watching a play with a lectern at dead-center for high-minded speeches." At this he succeeds. Mitgang's Lincoln moves easily from private citizen to public servant to orator speaking lines destined to live...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809310341
• ISBN13: 9780809310340
• Release Date: February 1982
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.0"