The Lincoln Nobody Knows
by Richard N. Current
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This book is about how pictures represent. Do they, like words, depend on human conventions for their meaning, or do they instead exploit something else--perhaps by looking like what they represent? The problem is philosophical, but it has also interested psychologists and art historians. Robert Hopkins examines and criticizes the currently available answers to this question before proposing and defending one of his own, and concludes with an attempt to see what a proper understanding of show more picturing can tell us about that deeply mysterious phenomenon, the visual imagination. show lessTags
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An incisive, even-handed analysis of our ever enigmatic, many-faceted 16th president. An oldie but goodie, and a superb character study. You try to figure the guy out!
Has some very interesting information I didn't know much about, but also has some very questionable information and viewpoints he goes off in a titrate about so you question the validity of the new information. Covers two haphazard points of view, not necessarily apposing and you wonder what was the point comparison he is trying to make, thus some new view points to add to my research.
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Born in Colorado City, Colorado, on October 5, 1912, Richard Nelson Current received his B.A. from Oberlin College and went on to earn an M.S. at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a Ph.D. in history (1939) at the University of Wisconsin. Current taught at a number of institutions, including Rutgers University, show more Lawrence College, Mills College, the University of Illinois, and the University of Wisconsin before becoming Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1966--1983). He also taught in Japan, India, the Netherlands, Australia, Chile, and Germany. He was Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University. Current wrote about historical subjects ranging from the invention of the typewriter to American diplomacy. In 2000, he won the Lincoln Prize for lifetime achievement in the area of best non-fiction historical work pertaining to the American Civil War . Current died on October 26, 2012 at age 100. He is buried in Greensboro, NC. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Lincoln Nobody Knows
- People/Characters
- Abraham Lincoln
- Important places
- USA
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- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 973.7 — History & geography History of North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil War
- LCC
- E457 .C96 — History of the United States United States Civil War period, 1861-1865 Lincoln's administrations, 1861-April 15, 1865
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper
- ISBNs
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