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Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas

Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas

Trachtenberg, Alan

Paperback

General United States HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $31.00

ISBN10: 0809065738
ISBN13: 9780809065738
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: Jan 22 2008
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.18
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.28 Depth: 7.92
Language: English

Lincoln's Smile demonstrates why Alan Trachtenberg has been the leading scholar in American studies for more than four decades. --Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University

Alan Trachtenberg has always been interested in cultural artifacts that register meanings and feelings that Americans share even when they disagree about them. Some of the most beloved ones--like the famous last photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken at the time of his second inaugural--are downright puzzling, and it is their obscure, riddlelike aspects that draw his attention in the scintillating essays of Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas. With matchless authority, Trachtenberg moves from daguerreotypes to literary texts to subjects as diverse as Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the early works of Lewis Mumford.

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