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More statues exist of Abraham Lincoln than of any other American public figure. The nationwide fervor for erecting monuments in honor of the fallen President continued from after his death until at least the Great Depression. Percoco ( history, West Springfield H.S., Virginia) shows how he has used these Lincoln monuments as a means of incorporating his fascination with public sculpture into his school curriculum with admirable results. With a small group of teenaged students, he visited seven of these Lincoln statues, in places like Washington, DC, Newark, NJ, Chicago, Fort Wayne, and Cincinnati, each piece depicting a different artistic view of the President e.g., youthful visionary, emancipator, statesman. The group examined newspaper accounts of the monuments' funding, creation, and dedications, learning that many of the sculptors were more concerned with their own egos than their art. Lincoln's only surviving son, Robert, was critical of many of the finished pieces, calling George Grey Barnard's statue in Cincinnati a "grotesque" likeness. Percoco's narrative is both engaging and thought-provoking, a wonderful example of classroom lessons brought to the streets of our hometowns. Recommended for all libraries as the Lincoln birth bicentennial draws near. Susan Belsky, Oshkosh P.L., WI Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

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Foreword	xi
Preface	xix
Acknowledgments	xxxi
List of Photographs	xxxv
1 Charlotte's Seed: Thomas Ball's Emancipation Group / Freedmen's Monument (1876), Washington, D.C.	1
2 The Hero of Hoosierdom: Paul Manship's Lincoln the Hoosier Youth (1932), Fort Wayne, Indiana	31
3 A Different Kind of Civil War: George Grey Barnard's Lincoln (1917), Cincinnati, Ohio	49
4 Contemplative Statesmanship: Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Standing Lincoln (1887), Chicago, Illinois	89
5 Lincoln of Gethsemane: Gutzon Borglum's Seated Lincoln (1911), Newark, New Jersey	119
6 Lincoln the Mystic: James Earle Fraser's Lincoln (1930), Jersey City, New Jersey	145
7 A Lincoln for the Masses: Daniel Chester French's Seated Lincoln (1922), Washington, D.C.	175
Afterword	205
Appendix 1 Other Lincoln Memorials of Note	207
Appendix 2 State-by-State Breakdown of Lincoln Sculptures	219
Notes	221
Bibliography	227
Index	235

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