In honor of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, an
extensively researched, lavishly illustrated consideration of the
myths, memories, and questions that gathered around our most
beloved—and our most enigmatic—president in the years between his
assassination and the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922. A
sequel to the enormously successful Lincoln: An Illustrated
Biography, Looking for Lincoln picks up where the previous book
left off, examining how our sixteenth president’s legend came into
being.
Availing themselves of a vast collection of both
published and never-before-seen materials, the authors--the fourth
and fifth generations of a family of Lincoln scholars--bring into
focus the posthumous portrait of Lincoln that took hold in the
American imagination, becoming synonymous with the nation’s very
understanding of itself. Told through the voices of those who knew
the man--Northerners and Southerners, blacks and whites, neighbors
and family members, adversaries and colleagues—and through stories
carefully selected from long-forgotten newspapers, magazines, and
family scrapbooks, Looking for Lincoln charts the dramatic epilogue
to Lincoln’s extraordinary life when, in a process fraught with
jealousy, greed, and the struggle for power, the scope of his
historical significance was taking shape.
In vibrant and immediate detail, the authors
chart the years when Americans struggled to understand their loss
and rebuild their country. Here is a chronicle of the immediate
aftermath of the assassination; the private memories of those
closest to the slain president; the difficult period between 1876
and 1908, when a tired nation turned its back on the former slaves
and betrayed Lincoln’s teachings; and the early years of the
twentieth century when Lincoln’s popularity soared as African
Americans fought to reclaim the ideals he espoused.
Looking for Lincoln will deeply enhance our
understanding of the statesman and his legacy, at a moment when the
timeless example of his leadership is more crucial than ever.
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