Building the Myth: Selected Speeches Memorializing Abraham LincolnWaldo Warder Braden |
Contents
THE EULOGIST AND THE LINCOLN MYTH | 1 |
FUNERAL AND CORTEGE | 25 |
EMANCIPATION CELEBRATED | 87 |
The Scene in the Silent and Pathetic | 103 |
THE REPUBLICAN CELEBRATIONS | 115 |
THE COMMEMORATION OF LINCOLNS BIRTH | 137 |
THE BIRTHPLACE CELEBRATION | 159 |
THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL | 183 |
LINCOLN AS AN INTERNATIONAL SYMBOL | 193 |
RESHAPING THE LINCOLN IMAGE | 209 |
Biographical Notes | 245 |
Selected Bibliography | 253 |
Common terms and phrases
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