The global Lincoln /
Perhaps more than any other American, Abraham Lincoln has become a global figure, one who spoke--and continues to speak--to people across the world. Karl Marx judged Lincoln "the single-minded son of the working class"; Tolstoy reported his fame in the Caucasus; Tomas Masaryk, the first pr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
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| Summary: | Perhaps more than any other American, Abraham Lincoln has become a global figure, one who spoke--and continues to speak--to people across the world. Karl Marx judged Lincoln "the single-minded son of the working class"; Tolstoy reported his fame in the Caucasus; Tomas Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, drew strength as "the Lincoln of Central Europe"; racially-mixed, republican "Lincoln brigades" fought in the Spanish Civil War; and, more recently, statesmen ranging from Gordon Brown to Pervez Musharraf to Barack Obama have invoked Lincoln in support ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199702435 0199702438 |