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Summers with Lincoln

Looking for the Man in the Monuments

Summers with Lincoln( )
Author: Percoco, James A.
Foreword by: Holzer, Harold
ISBN:978-0-8232-2897-3
Publication Date:Aug 2009
Publisher:Fordham University Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $2.99
Book Description:

A journey across America revealing "the history of how seven of these monuments came to be . . . and what they mean to us today" (The Washington Times).   Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly two hundred statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated.   A few years ago, Jim Percoco, a history teacher with a...
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Pages:283
Author Biography
Percoco, James A. (Author)
Harold Holzer is one of the leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He is a prolific writer and lecturer. He has written, co-written and edited over 30 books including Abraham Lincoln, The Writer (2000), which was named to the Children's Literature Choice List and the Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year, and Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (2004), which won a 2005 Lincoln Prize. He has also written over 425 popular magazine and scholarly journal articles and numerous pamphlets and monographs. He has won numerous awards including the Barondess Award of the Civil War Round Table of New York five times; the Award of Achievement from the Lincoln Group of New York three times; a 1988 George Washington Medal; the 2000 Newman Book Award; and the 2008 National Humanities Medal. He is the Senior Vice President for External Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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