Packaging presidents
Subtitle: 200 years of campaigns & candidates
By: illustrated with selections from the Merrill C. Berman collection ; essays by Frederick Voss, Rick Beard & Michael Cheney
Contributors: Beard, Rick; Cheney, Michael; Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum; Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780979918216
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Art; Exhibitions; Presidents; Campaign paraphernalia; Political campaigns; Art collections; Political collectibles; Private collections; Presidential candidates; Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum; History; Pictorial works; Election
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition of objects predominantly from the collection of Merrill C. Berman, at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, Springfield, Ill. from Feb. 5 to Nov. 30, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Rick Beard; title: Collecting America's political past: an interview with Merrill Berman  -- Frederick Voss; title: Banners, buttons, and bandannas: remnants of campaigns past  -- Frederick Voss; title: A new national pastime, 1828-1856 photo essay  -- Frederick Voss & Rick Beard; title: Striking the pose on the campaign trail  -- Frederick Voss; title: The rise of the rail splitter, 1860-1864 photo essay  -- Frederick Voss & Rick Beard; title: They ran anyway: third party candidates  -- Frederick Voss; title: The Republican hegemony, 1868-1908 photo essay  -- Frederick Voss & Rick Beard; title: Vitriol for votes: slurs, smears, and dirty politics  -- Rick Beard; title: An era of traditions spurned, 1912-1960 photo essay  -- Frederick Voss & Rick Beard; title: The electronic candidate: debates and commercials -- Michael Cheney.