Lincoln's body : a cultural history /
Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us. The very roughness of Lincoln's appearance made him seem all the more common, one of us, as did his sense of humor about his own awkward physical nature.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us. The very roughness of Lincoln's appearance made him seem all the more common, one of us, as did his sense of humor about his own awkward physical nature. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780393065305 (hbk.) 0393065308 (hbk.) |