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Jan Morris Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest
Simon & Schuster 2000 0684855151 / 9780684855158 Hardcover Very Good
"'() Brash and skeptical when she first came to the United States in the 1950, Jan Morris cast a decidedly dubious eye on the saintly image of Abraham Lincoln and the log-cabin-to-the-White House legend that surrounded him. In innumerable visits over the last fifty years she has tried to make up her own mind about the sixteenth president, and after nearly half a century she has crystallized her conclusions in this unique portrait -- part historical fact, part travelogue, part reconstruction, part personal specullation -- her first book on America since the acclaimed Manhattan '45. Renowned on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the finest writers on history and travel in this century, Morris is part of the long tradition of foreigner observers who are able to illuminate America for Americans. In Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest, she looks at Lincoln with her singular perspective, and the result is a historical journey free of sentiment and nostalgia. Morris has not only travelled where'''' ID: mon0000081075"
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