Lincoln
Subtitle: a president for the ages
By: edited by Karl Weber
Contributors: Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Participant Media guide; Participant Media guide
Publisher: Public Affairs
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781610392631; 9781610392648; 9781610392639
Subjects: Politics and government; Philosophy; Lincoln (Motion picture : 2012); Decision making; Political and social views
Description: "Lincoln, in theaters November 9, portrays America's 16th president when he faced two colossal challenges: winning the Civil War, and passing the Thirteenth Amendment, outlawing slavery and making permanent the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation. The politics of wartime, which required unity at all costs, conflicted with divisiveness of slavery. The president had to be at once true to his ideals and employ old-fashioned political cunning to outwit his rivals. This companion book, featuring a foreword by screenwriter Tony Kushner, invites historians and Lincoln experts to imagine Lincoln in eras other than his own, facing challenges of those times. How would Lincoln have handled the Second World War, or the politics of Civil Rights era, or the modern Republican Party? Using the character of Lincoln presented in the film - a man of high principle and low cunning - the book shows how Lincoln, a president for the ages, might indeed have taken America forward during other historic moments of drama and opportunity."--

"This companion book to the major motion picture from Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, has leading historians answering the question: What Would Lincoln Do? Lincoln portrays America's 16th president when he faced two colossal challenges: winning the Civil War, and passing the Thirteenth Amendment, outlawing slavery and making permanent the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation. The politics of wartime, which required unity at all costs, conflicted with divisiveness of slavery. The president had to be at once true to his ideals and employ old-fashioned political cunning to outwit his rivals"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: The faces of Lincoln  -- Karl Weber; title: Elizabeth Keckley : bringing an extraordinary woman to the screen  -- Gloria Reuben; title: "A sacred effort" : Lincoln's unfinished journey from slavery to freedom  -- Henry Louis Gates Jr.; title: "By no means excluding females" : Abraham Lincoln and women's suffrage  -- Jean Baker; title: Lincoln, FDR, and the growth of Federal power  -- Daniel Farber; title: "That this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away" : Lincoln and the Hiroshima decision  -- James Tackach; title: At the end of two wars : 1865 and 1945, Lincoln and Roosevelt  -- Allen C. Guelzo; title: Abraham Lincoln : the president as outlaw  -- James Malanowski; title: President Abraham Lincoln confronts the War on Terror  -- the Honorable Frank J. Williams; title: "Public opinion is everything" : Lincoln the communicator  -- Douglas L. Wilson; title: "The almighty has his own purposes" : Abraham Lincoln and the Christian right  -- Richard Carwardine; title: The real Lincoln is the icon : an interview with Andrew Ferguson --; title: Lincoln, the unlikely celebrity -- Harold Holzer.