From Rail-Splitter to Icon: Lincoln's Image in Illustrated Periodicals, 1860-1865 | 
 enlarge | Author: Gary L. Bunker
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 387
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0873387015
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7092
EAN: 9780873387019
ASIN: 0873387015
Publication Date: October 2001
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Lincoln in Caricature November 29, 2001
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From Rail-Splitter to Icon is a unique and fascinating contribution to our understanding of how Lincoln was judged by the press, both here, North and South, and abroad. Through dogged and meticulous research, Bunker has combed the country for magazines largely judged ephemeral at the time but that now loom large in our understanding of popular culture -- those that featured humor and political cartoons. In this handsome book, he assesses their content and pictures nearly 200 of the Lincoln images under discussion, most of which have never been reprinted. Bunker's book easily surpasses all of the other books devoted to Lincoln in caricature [Walsh. Lincoln and the London Punch (1909); Shaw. A Cartoon History of Abraham Lincoln (1930) (which ends inexplicably in 1861); and Rockwell. Lincoln in Caricature (1946) (which is a book of plates with extended captions)] because Bunker's survey of the field is comprehensive, when the others were selective, and his historical analysis is fully informed by several generations of important Lincoln scholarship. This groundbreaking book is surely a candidate for awards. Highly recommended.
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