The Indy's special issue on Abe Lincoln came out today and I had a small piece in it trying to make sense of the recent explosion of "popular Lincolnology" read against the Obama and Bush presidencies.
There's a lot of good stuff in the issue, from twelve ways of looking at Abraham Lincoln to Lincoln in music to Lincoln in film to Lincoln on Facebook. Even Gore Vidal gets his shout-out...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Posted by Gerry Canavan at 6:19 PM
Labels: Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, books, Bush, Durham, Facebook, film, Gore Vidal, music, poetry, politics, popular Lincolnology
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