Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America | 
 enlarge | Author: Andrew Ferguson
Creator: Patrick Lawlor
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
Category: Book
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Format: Audiobook, Cd, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 9
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 5.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 1400104327
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7092
EAN: 9781400104321
ASIN: 1400104327
Publication Date: June 10, 2007
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Enjoy the Journey September 27, 2008
James Gallen (St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.)
"Land of Lincoln" takes the reader on an entertaining journey in pursuit of the Long Shadow of Long Abe. This book is about the influence of Lincoln's Legacy on individual Americans.
With Author Andrew Ferguson, the reader visits Lincoln, people, places and things from a controversial new statue in Richmond, Virginia to a collector in California. Chapter by chapter we visit Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Abraham Lincoln Association, The Lincoln Forum, Lincoln Personators, collectors, business workshop facilitators, Springfield, Indiana and Hodgenville, Kentucky and many other places and people. Individuals such as Collector Louise Taper and Rhode Island Chief Justice Frank Williams, for whom Lincoln seems to be a life role model, leave the reader in awe of their single-minded pursuit of Lincoln. Ferguson does an excellent job in explaining how the treatment of Lincoln has changed over the years, with special emphasis on the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
Ferguson writes in a tongue in cheek manner which adds humor to a work which is both entertaining and educational. As a boy in Illinois who grew up to be an Illinois lawyer, I have a fairly good familiarity with Lincoln, but I learned many things about his life and legacy. I did not know what to expect when I started this book, but enjoyed it from start to finish. I listened to parts dealing with Springfield and Central Illinois while driving through those areas. Ferguson's descriptions of family trips through Lincoln Land sound very familiar. I am glad that even professional historians have problems with less interested children, as do I. As he talked about taking his family through the same sites that he had visited with his parents I felt the satisfaction of having done the same. This book is a treat for anyone who grew up in the shadow of Lincoln, who visits his sites or who lives in the nation which he shaped.
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