Lincoln's Sense of Humor by Richard Carwardine
Registers the variety, complexity of purpose, and ethical dimension of Lincolns humor and pinpoints the political risks Lincoln ran in telling jokes while the nation was engaged in a bloody struggle for existence.
Richard Carwardine is a professor emeritus at Oxford University, where he served as Rhodes Professor of American History from 2002 to 2009 and as president of Corpus Christi College from 2010 to 2016. His analytical biography Lincoln won the Lincoln Prize in 2004 and was subsequently published in the United States as Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power. His other work includes Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1790—1865; Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America; and (with Jay Sexton) The Global Lincoln.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780809337774 |
| ISBN 10 | 0809337770 |
| Title | Lincoln's Sense of Humor |
| Author | Richard Carwardine |
| Series | Concise Lincoln Library |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Southern Illinois University Press |
| Year published | 2019-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 188 |
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