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Lincoln's Body: A Cultural HistoryLincoln's Body: A Cultural History

Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History

Richard Wightman Fox

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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.

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OL Work ID
OL19167137W

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Political culturePublic opinionInfluenceHistoryLincoln, abraham, 1809-1865

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