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The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire by Todd Nathan Thompson (Hardcover, 2015)

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Abraham Lincoln's love of jokes- hear ing them, telling them, drawing morals from them-prompted critics to dub Lin coln the National Joker. Interestingly, the political cartoons and print satires that mocked Lincoln often trafficked in precisely the same images and terms Lincoln humorously used to charac terize himself. In this intriguing study, Todd Nathan Thompson considers the politically productive tension between Lincoln's use of satire and satiric treat ments of him in political cartoons, humour periodicals, joke books, and campaign literature. Thompson traces Lincoln's comic sources and explains how, in reapplying others' jokes and stories to political circumstances, he transformed humour into satire. Time and time again, Thompson shows, Lin coln engaged in self-mockery, turning negative assumptions or depictions of him-as ugly, cowardly, jocular, inexperienced-into positive traits that identified him as an everyman while attacking his opponents' claims to greatness, heroism, and experience as aristocratic or demagogic. By fashion ing a folksy, fallible persona, Thompson shows, Lincoln was able to use satire as a weapon without being severely wounded by it. Thompson also considers how Lin coln used political cartoons and other media to craft the particular Lincoln image of the self-made man, under scores exceptions to Lincoln's ability to mitigate negative depictions, and closely examines political cartoons from both the 1860 and 1864 elections. Throughout, Thompson's deft analysis preserves Lincoln's popular humour. This enjoyable volume will appeal to schol ars of history, politics, literature, and cultural studies as well as to those of American humour and satire.

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Southern Illinois University Press
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Todd Nathan Thompson
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The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire
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Hardcover
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English
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Politics, History
Publication Year
2015
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Textbook
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200 Pages

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