In contrast, Carwardine’s “Lincoln’s Horizons: The Nationalist as Universalist” sets the right tone for the Great Emancipator by reminding readers that despite his lack of travel abroad, the perpetually curious Lincoln had two globes-celestial and planetary-in his Springfield, Ill., home. In fact, one of the book’s key features is found in the appendix by George Scratcherd on “Foreign Language Biographies of Lincoln,” which clearly shows that biographies in Chinese, Japanese and Korean have come to dominate the field. The Global Lincoln has both a Western European and biographical orientation, as might be expected from Carwardine, a Lincoln biographer himself. The Global Lincoln, edited by Jay Sexton and Richard Carwardine, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, is the latest volume in international Lincoln studies and emerged from a 2009 conference held at the prestigious British university. Have Americans outsourced one of their greatest political treasures? It will surprise many Americans that the Great Emancipator is the best-known American president around the world and that this research began abroad. Oxford University Press 2011, $29.95Īt the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth in 2009, a new area of Lincoln studies emerged: his legacy outside the United States after the Civil War era. The Global Lincoln by Richard Carwardine, Jay Sexton, eds.
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