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From rail-splitter to icon : Lincoln's image in illustrated periodicals, 1861865

Cartoon images of Abraham Lincoln fom the 19th century can increase our understanding of opinion towards Lincoln, the dynamics of Civil War, popular art and culture, the media, political caricature, and presidential politics. This text is a history of the development of Lincoln's public profile.
Print Book, English, ©2001
Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, ©2001
Caricatures and cartoons
x, 387 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
9780873387019, 0873387015
1004808732
1. Introduction
2. The Development of Lincoln's Image in Periodicals
3. The Comic Press and Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency
4. From Springfield to the Battlefield
5. The Vagaries of War
6. The Evolution of Emancipation
7. The Strain of Conflict
8. The Comic News, Lincoln, and the Civil War
9. The Drive to Deprive Lincoln of a Second Term
10. The Olive Branch or the Sword?
11. Enduring to the End
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