{"product_id":"abraham-lincoln-in-50-objects","title":"Abraham Lincoln in 50 Objects- Available May 2027","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe man behind the monument, revealed through the objects of his life and legend.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMore than 15,000 books have been written about Abraham Lincoln. Yet Thomas A. Horrocks finds a fresh and revealing way to encounter the sixteenth president: through the objects that shaped, recorded, promoted, burdened, and mythologized his life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbraham Lincoln in 50 Objects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an intimate, visually rich biography told through fifty tangible touchstones, drawn from major museums, libraries, archives, and private collections. A grammar book evokes Lincoln’s fierce self-education. A survey map opens onto his restless young adulthood. A stovepipe hat becomes both personal trademark and practical working tool. A pen carries the weight of emancipation. Campaign images, political documents, household objects, relics of assassination, and artifacts of mourning reveal how Lincoln became, in life and death, both a man and an American legend.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHorrocks does not use these objects as illustrations to a familiar story. He builds vivid historical episodes around them, restoring physical texture to a figure too often reduced to marble, myth, and quotation. Here is Lincoln as reader, lawyer, husband, politician, commander in chief, writer, emancipator, martyr, and secular saint.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnsentimental, accessible, and deeply informed, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbraham Lincoln in 50 Objects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings readers close to the material world of Lincoln’s life—and to the complicated human being whose words, choices, and image continue to shape our true American dream.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eAbraham Lincoln in 50 Objects\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan id=\"_mce_caret\"\u003e“Like his famous hat, this book is full of surprises....Having spent a fair amount of time wrestling with Lincoln’s ideas, I found it deeply moving to encounter him through his things.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eTed Widmer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003efrom the foreword\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Godine","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43950187610230,"sku":"978-1-56792-882-2","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/6087\/7686\/files\/9781567928822_FC.jpg?v=1785938769","url":"https:\/\/godine.com\/products\/abraham-lincoln-in-50-objects","provider":"Godine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}