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The national joker : Abraham Lincoln and the politics of satire / Todd Nathan Thompson

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Thompson, Todd Nathan
Published
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2015]
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) : illustrations
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English.
Contents
Introduction: Abraham Lincoln and the American satiric tradition -- "This reminds me of a little joke": from humor to satire -- "Little big man": modesty and attack in Lincoln's writings and speeches -- The rail-splitter president -- "Abraham Africanus the first": the limits of preemptive self-satire -- "A Hoosier Michael Angelo": the politics of Lincoln's physical appearance in popular media.
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ISBN
9780809334230 (electronic bk.)
0809334232 (electronic bk.)
0809334232 (ebook)
9780809334223
0809334224
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index.
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