The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print

By Gabor S. Boritt, Mark E. Neely Jr., Harold Holzer

Book Overview

A fascinating examination of the relationship between Lincoln's image, the printmaker's craft, and the political culture that helped shape them both, "The Lincoln Image" documents how printmakers both chronicled and influenced the president's transformation into an American icon. 106 photos.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684180723
• ISBN13: 9780684180724
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Scribner
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An original and highly recommended work

Harold Holzer, Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark E. Neeley Jr. effectively collaborate to present The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln And The Popular Print. Their work, profusely enhanced with period photographs (as well as iconography immediately following his assassination) documenting how popular prints served to make Lincoln's image of the popular and political culture of his day. An original and highly recommended work, The Lincoln Image is a impressive study of painstaking and exhaustive scholarship that will be greatly appreciated by academia, Lincoln studies supplemental curriculum reading lists, and students of 19th Century American political history.