Lincoln, Inc. : Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America.
Title:
Lincoln, Inc. : Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America.
Author:
Hogan, Jackie.
ISBN:
9781442209565
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (168 pages)
Contents:
Lincoln, Inc. -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 01: Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President -- Chapter 02: Mr. Lincoln's Coattails: Marketing, Memorabilia, and Presidential Tourism -- Chapter 03: Packaging the President: Lincoln Biographies -- Chapter 04: Telling Fictions: Lincoln in Literature, Television, and Film -- Chapter 05: What Would Lincoln Do? The Sixteenth President in Twenty-First-Century Politics -- Chapter 06: A Is for Abe: Teaching Lincoln -- Chapter 07: Lincoln under Glass: The Great Emancipator in American Museums -- Chapter 08: Selling Lincoln: Who Do We Think We Are? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Lincoln, Inc. is an engaging examination of the uses and abuses of the sixteenth president's image in America today. Whether in political campaigns, blockbuster films, school pageants, or soft drink advertisements, the use of the Lincoln image reveals who we think we are as a nation, and who we wish we could be.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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