Lincoln legends : myths, hoaxes, and confabulations associated with our greatest president
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Lincoln legends : myths, hoaxes, and confabulations associated with our greatest president
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The work Lincoln legends : myths, hoaxes, and confabulations associated with our greatest president represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Lincoln legends : myths, hoaxes, and confabulations associated with our greatest president
- Title remainder
- myths, hoaxes, and confabulations associated with our greatest president
- Statement of responsibility
- Edward Steers Jr. ; with an introduction by Harold Holzer
- Subject
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- Folklore
- Folklore
- Folklore -- United States
- HISTORY
- HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History
- Legends
- Legends
- Legends -- United States
- Electronic books
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Legends
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Legends
- Presidents
- Presidents -- United States -- Folklore
- Presidents -- United States -- Folklore
- United States
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The folklore surrounding history's towering figures often overshadows actual scholarship, both in terms of quantity and in terms of prevalence in the public consciousness. As one might expect with a revered national icon, nearly every facet of Abraham Lincoln's life has been subject to mythmaking as well as academic inquiry of widely varying quality and accuracy. In Lincoln Legends, noted historian and Lincoln expert Edward Steers Jr. carefully scrutinizes some of the most notorious tall tales and distorted ideas about America's sixteenth President
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- digitized
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 973.7092
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E457.2
- LC item number
- .S795 2007eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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