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Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait: The Story of a Photograph that Became an American Icon



by
Leonard S. Marcus

Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Macmillan
Imprint
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN
9780374303488
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Nonfiction Middle

A unique middle-grade biography of America’s sixteenth president, through the lens of one famous photograph.

On February 9, 1864, Abraham Lincoln made the mile-long walk from the Executive Mansion to photographer Mathew Brady’s Washington, DC, studio, to be joined there later by his ten-year-old son, Tad. With a fractious reelection campaign looming that year, America's first media-savvy president was intent on securing another portrait that cast him in a favorable light, as he prepared to make the case for himself to a nation weary of war. In the studio it proved to be a red-letter day. In addition to the image that later found its way onto the penny—and a pair of photos adapted for the old and new five-dollar bills—the Brady studio’s chief photographer, Anthony Berger, produced a dual portrait of Lincoln and Tad. The pose, featuring Lincoln reading to his son, was a last-minute improvisation, but the image that came of it was—and remains—incomparably tender and enduringly powerful. Immediately after the president's murder, it became a mass-produced icon—a cherished portrait of a nation’s fallen hero, a disarmingly intimate record of a careworn father’s feeling for his child, a timeless comment on books as a binding force between generations. Illustrated with archival photos and related material, here is a fascinating depiction of a peerless leader, and a memorable account of the making of an image the world has come to prize.

Bibliography. Notes. Index. Black-and-white photographs and reproductions. Full-color photo insert. 

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Details

Format

Print

Page Count

128

Trim Size

9" x 6"

Dewey

973.7

AR

0: points 0

Lexile

NC1310L

Genre

Nonfic

Scholastic Reading Counts

0

JLG Release

Mar 2023

Book Genres

Narrative Nonfiction

Topics

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). US Presidents. Portrait photography. Nineteenth-century US history. Civil War (1861–1865). US politics and government. 

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