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Author | : Paul M. Zall |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781572335851 |
Abraham Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter, a substantial revision of P. M. Zall's 1982 classic, Abe Lincoln Laughing, consists of stories, jokes, and anecdotes on a wide range of topics by and about Abraham Lincoln before and after he became president. Establishing which tales are authentic and which are frauds and delusions, Abraham Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter includes stories derived from Lincoln's writings and speeches; writings by others up to April 1865; post-Civil War writings by those who knew him; and writings by others about Lincoln in later decades, including a sample from the twentieth century. Within each group, entries are arranged in the order they appeared in print. The volume contains notes, a bibliography, an index of the entries by section, and a subject index.
Author | : Gordon Leidner |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1492609668 |
"Simply the best book that has been published on this great president's humor and stories...Everyone interested in Abraham Lincoln will want to read this."—William C. Harris, author of Lincoln and the Border States Abraham Lincoln has long been admired for his leadership, honesty, and eloquence. But despite his somber reputation, the sixteenth president was quite funny. With an uncanny ability to mimic others and an irresistible midwestern twang, Lincoln, in fact, could be downright hilarious. Brimming with his funniest quips, jokes, and stories, Lincoln's Gift explores the crucial role humor played throughout his tumultuous professional and private life. Perfect for history buffs and Lincoln enthusiasts alike, this clever and captivating biography reveals how America's greatest president used his lighter side to lead the country through one of its darkest times, the Civil War. "Gordon Leidner ingeniously blends a study of Lincoln's humor with an account of his life, showing how our sixteenth president was not always a 'man of sorrows' but often a man of laughter, capable alike of enjoying as well as telling a good story."—Michael Burlingame, author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life
Author | : Kathleen Krull |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0547487924 |
Poor Abraham Lincoln! His life was hardly fun at all. A country torn in two by war, citizens who didn’t like him as president, a homely appearance—what could there possibly be to laugh about? And yet he did laugh. Lincoln wasn’t just one of our greatest presidents. He was a comic storyteller and a person who could lighten a grim situation with a clever quip. This unusual biography of Lincoln highlights his life and presidency, focusing on what made his sense of humor so distinctive—and so necessary to surviving his tough life and times.
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Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : Richard Carwardine |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2017-10-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0809336146 |
"Abraham Lincoln was the first president consistently to make storytelling and laughter tools of office. This book shows how his uses of humor evolved to fit changing personal circumstances, and explores its versatility, range of expressions, and multiple sources"--
Author | : Abraham Lincoln |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2019-12-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"A Legacy of Fun" by Abraham Lincoln is a collection of short snippets from the life of one of the United States of America's most famous presidents. Abe Lincoln was known for being a soft-spoken man, but he lived an exciting life, even before his time as president. This collection of excerpts shows that beneath the hard and serious exterior he is portrayed as having, Lincoln was a witty and humorous individual.
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Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2021-01-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0486843637 |
This collection of jokes and yarns reflects the homespun humor Lincoln developed as a traveling lawyer, which later proved an effective tool for negotiating policy, gaining influence, and imparting moral lessons.
Author | : Paul M. Zall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520045972 |
Collects comic tales concerning the life of Abraham Lincoln told by other people and witty stories told by himself on a variety of themes
Author | : Paul M. Zall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780870498893 |
Author | : Todd Nathan Thompson |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2015-07-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0809334232 |
Abraham Lincoln’s sense of humor proved legendary during his own time and remains a celebrated facet of his personality to this day. Indeed, his love of jokes—hearing them, telling them, drawing morals from them—prompted critics to dub Lincoln “the National Joker.” The political cartoons and print satires that mocked Lincoln often trafficked in precisely the same images and terms Lincoln humorously used to characterize himself. In this intriguing study, Todd Nathan Thompson considers the politically productive tension between Lincoln’s use of satire and the satiric treatments of him in political cartoons, humor periodicals, joke books, and campaign literature. By fashioning a folksy, fallible persona, Thompson shows, Lincoln was able to use satire as a weapon without being severely wounded by it. In his speeches, writings, and public persona, Lincoln combined modesty and attack, engaging in strategic self-deprecation while denouncing his opponents, their policies, and their arguments, thus refiguring satiric discourse as political discourse and vice versa. At the same time, he astutely deflected his opponents’ criticisms of him by embracing and sometimes preemptively initiating those criticisms. Thompson traces Lincoln’s comic sources and explains how, in reapplying others’ jokes and stories to political circumstances, he transformed humor into satire. Time and time again, Thompson shows, Lincoln engaged in self-mockery, turning negative assumptions or depictions of him—as ugly, cowardly, jocular, inexperienced—into positive traits that identified him as an everyman while attacking his opponents’ claims to greatness, heroism, and experience as aristocratic or demagogic. Thompson also considers how Lincoln took advantage of political cartoons and other media to help proliferate the particular Lincoln image of the “self-made man”; underscores exceptions to Lincoln’s ability to mitigate negative, satiric depictions of him; and closely examines political cartoons from both the 1860 and 1864 elections. Throughout, Thompson’s deft analysis brings to life Lincoln’s popular humor.