Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History

by Richard Wightman Fox

Book Overview

In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, 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. Nineteenth-century African Americans felt deep affection for their "liberator" as a "homely" man who did not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393065308
• ISBN13: 9780393065305
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"