Martin A. Sweeney

Lincoln's Gift from Homer, New York

A Painter, an Editor and a Detective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although Illinois enjoys the indisputable title of "The Land of Lincoln," one small town in New York State played a significant role in the sixteenth president's history. Three native sons of Homer--a detective, a journalist, and a painter--helped inscribe Abraham Lincoln's place in the nation's iconic imagery. Private investigator Eli DeVoe foiled an assassination plot against Lincoln before his first inauguration; journalist William Osborn Stoddard, an early Lincoln supporter, became an influential secretary of the president; and artist Francis Bicknell Carpenter painted The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet, which still hangs in the U.S. Capitol. This exploration of these men and the town that produced them offers insight into the complexities of presidential image-making, and reveals why a small New York town has become a choice destination for Lincoln historians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9780786463695
• ISBN-10: 0786463694
• Artikelnr.: 33170620

Autorenporträt

Martin A. Sweeney, the town historian of Homer, New York, writes frequently for local newspapers and is a member of the Lincoln Forum of Gettysburg.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Prologue     
1. Homer: The Place of the Silversmith     
2. "Proximus Ascendi"     
3. A Clever Drawing on the Schoolhouse Door     
4. Having Interests and Aspirations Different from Others     
5. "That Grim Object Lesson"     
6. Honing His Craft     
7. The Lemon Tree Comes into Bloom     
8. An Ambition Rising Fast     
9. "Something in This Man's Face and Manner"     
10. A Request "Bold, Even to Presumption"     
11. Foiling the Plot to Kill "Nuts"     
12. On Loan to the White House     
13. A Desk Near the President's Chamber     
14. The Sound of Breaking and Falling Chains     
15. "Do You Think You Can Make a Handsome Picture of Me?"     
16. "Turned in Loose" for Six Months at the White House     
17. "It Is as Good as It Can Be Made"     
18. Last Days in the Service of Lincoln     
19. Assassination and the Iconic Image of Lincoln     
20. Lobbying for Carpenter and the Painting     
21. A Dream Fulfilled and Dark Days     
22. Carpenter's Last Three Decades     
23. "To Portray the Man as He Was Revealed to Me"     
24. "I Have Certainly Not Stolen a March on Anybody"     
25. Homer and the Lincoln Legacy     
Epilogue     
Appendix A: Central Illinois Gazette Story (May 4, 1859)     
Appendix B: Central Illinois Gazette Editorial (December 7, 1859)     
Appendix C: Gideon Welles's Version of the September 22, 1863, Cabinet
Meeting     
Appendix D: The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862)
     
Appendix E: The Final Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)     
Appendix F: Carpenter and Stoddard Describe Lincoln's Sleepless Nights
     
Appendix G: Remarks of William O. Stoddard of New York     
Chapter Notes     
Sources     
Index