The national joker : Abraham Lincoln and the politics of satire / Todd Nathan Thompson.
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TextPublisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9780809334230
- 0809334232
- 0809334232
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Humor
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Political satire, American -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 -- Humor
- Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Satire politique américaine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1861-1865 -- Humour
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General
- Political culture
- Political satire, American
- Politics and government
- United States
- 1800-1899
- 973.7092 23
- E457.15 .T47 2015eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index.
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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