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Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
1137279168
ISBN-13
9781137279163
eBay Product ID (ePID)
172831789
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lincoln Dreamt He Died : the Midnight Visions of Remarkable Americans from Colonial Times to Freud
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Rich & Famous, United States / 19th Century, United States / General, Dreams
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
'I don't know anything more troublesome than . . . those people who are eternally pestering one with recitals of their dreams,' complained Henry Laurens, onetime president of the Continental Congress. Two days later, he anonymously printed his own dream in a newspaper. With a keen eye for such fascination and ambivalence, Andrew Burstein has written a compelling history of unconscious America. For much of our past, Americans slept; dreams filled their hours and shaped their identities. Yet rarely have historians looked at the nation asleep, or at the lingering of dreams in daylight. Burstein, one of our most creative and perceptive scholars and writers, awakens us to the significance of dreams--powerful, peculiar, and elusive--in the lives of such figures as Washington and Lincoln, Thoreau and Twain, and in the broader culture of the young republic., This quirky, episodic 200-year gambol explores the development of the American Dream by unpacking Americans' dreams.... Burstein's elegantly crafted nightstand tome demonstrates that dreams "reflect a distinctly... human desire to chart time via stories., "This quirky, episodic 200-year gambol explores the development of the American Dream by unpacking Americans' dreams.... Burstein's elegantly crafted nightstand tome demonstrates that dreams "reflect a distinctly... human desire to chart time via stories." -- Publishers Weekly "An acclaimed historian dives headlong into the dreams of some iconic Americans." -- Kirkus Reviews " Lincoln Dreamt He Died provides a compelling perspective on America's collective psyche. Readers will gain new insight into luminaries including Benjamin Rush, Henry David Thoreau, and Thomas Jefferson, but will likely gain just as much pleasure from the vividly-drawn and lesser known dreamers: a spurned lover in New Orleans, a Norwegian-born sailor in Manhattan, a Civil War soldier and the young woman he left behind in Ohio. Burstein has given us a first-rate cultural history, 'from the inside out.'" -- Amy Greenberg, author of A Wicked War "Andrew Burstein is one of the most original and readable historians in our midst." -- Douglas L. Wilson, Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College and two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize "'I don't know anything more troublesome than . . . those people who are eternally pestering one with recitals of their dreams,' complained Henry Laurens, onetime president of the Continental Congress. Two days later, he anonymously printed his own dream in a newspaper. With a keen eye for such fascination and ambivalence, Andrew Burstein has written a compelling history of unconscious America. For much of our past, Americans slept; dreams filled their hours and shaped their identities. Yet rarely have historians looked at the nation asleep, or at the lingering of dreams in daylight. Burstein, one of our most creative and perceptive scholars and writers, awakens us to the significance of dreams--powerful, peculiar, and elusive--in the lives of such figures as Washington and Lincoln, Thoreau and Twain, and in the broader culture of the young republic." -- T.J. Stiles, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt "Quite apart from the mythic dream of upward mobility, America in past centuries has given rise to myriad visions. In this absorbing volume, not only does Burstein explore the nocturnal fantasies of famed politicians and philosophers, but we also learn of ordinary citizens with extra ordinary imaginations. Rarely has a work of history so skillfully probed the American psyche." -- A. Roger Ekirch, author of At Day's Close: Night in Times Past "For anyone who thinks that dreams are trivial, Lincoln Dreamt He Died provides a bracing historical corrective. Burstein's guided tour of America's nocturnal imagination shows that many prominent Americans, from Benjamin Rush and Joseph Priestley to Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain, took their dreams quite seriously and shared them with others as a source of amusement, inspiration, and enlightenment. This fascinating book reveals a deep current of dreaming curiosity that has shaped American culture from its earliest days all the way into the modern era." -- Kelly Bulkeley, author of American Dreamers and Dreaming in the World's Religions, I don't know anything more troublesome than . . . those people who are eternally pestering one with recitals of their dreams," complained Henry Laurens, onetime president of the Continental Congress. Two days later, he anonymously printed his own dream in a newspaper. With a keen eye for such fascination and ambivalence, Andrew Burstein has written a compelling history of unconscious America. For much of our past, Americans slept; dreams filled their hours and shaped their identities. Yet rarely have historians looked at the nation asleep, or at the lingering of dreams in daylight. Burstein, one of our most creative and perceptive scholars and writers, awakens us to the significance of dreams--powerful, peculiar, and elusive--in the lives of such figures as Washington and Lincoln, Thoreau and Twain, and in the broader culture of the young republic., Quite apart from the mythic dream of upward mobility, America in past centuries has given rise to myriad visions. In this absorbing volume, not only does Burstein explore the nocturnal fantasies of famed politicians and philosophers, but we also learn of ordinary citizens with extra ordinary imaginations. Rarely has a work of history so skillfully probed the American psyche., Lincoln Dreamt He Died provides a compelling perspective on America's collective psyche. Readers will gain new insight into luminaries including Benjamin Rush, Henry David Thoreau, and Thomas Jefferson, but will likely gain just as much pleasure from the vividly-drawn and lesser known dreamers: a spurned lover in New Orleans, a Norwegian-born sailor in Manhattan, a Civil War soldier and the young woman he left behind in Ohio. Burstein has given us a first-rate cultural history, 'from the inside out.', "This quirky, episodic 200-year gambol explores the development of the American Dream by unpacking Americans' dreams…. Burstein's elegantly crafted nightstand tome demonstrates that dreams "reflect a distinctly... human desire to chart time via stories."-Publishers Weekly "An acclaimed historian dives headlong into the dreams of some iconic Americans." Kirkus reviews " Lincoln Dreamt He Died provides a compelling perspective on America's collective psyche. Readers will gain new insight into luminaries including Benjamin Rush, Henry David Thoreau, and Thomas Jefferson, but will likely gain just as much pleasure from the vividly-drawn and lesser known dreamers: a spurned lover in New Orleans, a Norwegian-born sailor in Manhattan, a Civil War soldier and the young woman he left behind in Ohio. Burstein has given us a first-rate cultural history, 'from the inside out.'"-Amy Greenberg, author of A Wicked War "Andrew Burstein is one of the most original and readable historians in our midst."-Douglas L. Wilson, Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College and two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize "I don't know anything more troublesome than . . . those people who are eternally pestering one with recitals of their dreams," complained Henry Laurens, onetime president of the Continental Congress. Two days later, he anonymously printed his own dream in a newspaper. With a keen eye for such fascination and ambivalence, Andrew Burstein has written a compelling history of unconscious America. For much of our past, Americans slept; dreams filled their hours and shaped their identities. Yet rarely have historians looked at the nation asleep, or at the lingering of dreams in daylight. Burstein, one of our most creative and perceptive scholars and writers, awakens us to the significance of dreams-powerful, peculiar, and elusive-in the lives of such figures as Washington and Lincoln, Thoreau and Twain, and in the broader culture of the young republic."-T.J. Stiles, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt "Quite apart from the mythic dream of upward mobility, America in past centuries has given rise to myriad visions. In this absorbing volume, not only does Burstein explore the nocturnal fantasies of famed politicians and philosophers, but we also learn of ordinary citizens with extra ordinary imaginations. Rarely has a work of history so skillfully probed the American psyche."-A. Roger Ekirch, author of At Day's Close: Night in Times Past "For anyone who thinks that dreams are trivial, Lincoln Dreamt He Died provides a bracing historical corrective. Burstein's guided tour of America's nocturnal imagination shows that many prominent Americans, from Benjamin Rush and Joseph Priestley to Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain, took their dreams quite seriously and shared them with others as a source of amusement, inspiration, and enlightenment. This fascinating book reveals a deep current of dreaming curiosity that has shaped American culture from its earliest days all the way into the modern era."-Kelly Bulkeley, author of American Dreamers and Dreaming in the World's Religions, For anyone who thinks that dreams are trivial, Lincoln Dreamt He Died provides a bracing historical corrective. Burstein's guided tour of America's nocturnal imagination shows that many prominent Americans, from Benjamin Rush and Joseph Priestley to Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain, took their dreams quite seriously and shared them with others as a source of amusement, inspiration, and enlightenment. This fascinating book reveals a deep current of dreaming curiosity that has shaped American culture from its earliest days all the way into the modern era., "This quirky, episodic 200-year gambol explores the development of the American Dream by unpacking Americans' dreams.... Burstein's elegantly crafted nightstand tome demonstrates that dreams "reflect a distinctly... human desire to chart time via stories."-Publishers Weekly "An acclaimed historian dives headlong into the dreams of some iconic Americans." - Kirkus reviews " Lincoln Dreamt He Died provides a compelling perspective on America's collective psyche. Readers will gain new insight into luminaries including Benjamin Rush, Henry David Thoreau, and Thomas Jefferson, but will likely gain just as much pleasure from the vividly-drawn and lesser known dreamers: a spurned lover in New Orleans, a Norwegian-born sailor in Manhattan, a Civil War soldier and the young woman he left behind in Ohio. Burstein has given us a first-rate cultural history, 'from the inside out.'"-Amy Greenberg, author of A Wicked War "Andrew Burstein is one of the most original and readable historians in our midst."-Douglas L. Wilson, Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College and two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize "I don't know anything more troublesome than . . . those people who are eternally pestering one with recitals of their dreams," complained Henry Laurens, onetime president of the Continental Congress. Two days later, he anonymously printed his own dream in a newspaper. With a keen eye for such fascination and ambivalence, Andrew Burstein has written a compelling history of unconscious America. For much of our past, Americans slept; dreams filled their hours and shaped their identities. Yet rarely have historians looked at the nation asleep, or at the lingering of dreams in daylight. Burstein, one of our most creative and perceptive scholars and writers, awakens us to the significance of dreams-powerful, peculiar, and elusive-in the lives of such figures as Washington and Lincoln, Thoreau and Twain, and in the broader culture of the young republic."-T.J. Stiles, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt "Quite apart from the mythic dream of upward mobility, America in past centuries has given rise to myriad visions. In this absorbing volume, not only does Burstein explore the nocturnal fantasies of famed politicians and philosophers, but we also learn of ordinary citizens with extra ordinary imaginations. Rarely has a work of history so skillfully probed the American psyche."-A. Roger Ekirch, author of At Day's Close: Night in Times Past "For anyone who thinks that dreams are trivial, Lincoln Dreamt He Died provides a bracing historical corrective. Burstein's guided tour of America's nocturnal imagination shows that many prominent Americans, from Benjamin Rush and Joseph Priestley to Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain, took their dreams quite seriously and shared them with others as a source of amusement, inspiration, and enlightenment. This fascinating book reveals a deep current of dreaming curiosity that has shaped American culture from its earliest days all the way into the modern era."-Kelly Bulkeley, author of American Dreamers and Dreaming in the World's Religions
Dewey Decimal
154.6/30973
Synopsis
Before Sigmund Freud made dreams the cornerstone of understanding an individual's inner life, Americans shared their dreams unabashedly with one another through letters, diaries, and casual conversation. In this innovative book, highly regarded historian Andrew Burstein goes back for the first time to discover what we can learn about the lives and emotions of Americans, from colonial times to the beginning of the modern age. Through a thorough study of dreams recorded by iconic figures such as John and Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as everyday men and women, we glimpse the emotions of earlier generations and understand how those feelings shaped their lives and careers, thus gaining a fuller, multi-dimensional sense of our own past. No one has ever looked at the building blocks of the American identity in this way, and Burstein reveals important clues and landmarks that show the origins of the ideas and values that remain central to who we are today., "This quirky, episodic 200-year gambol explores the development of the American Dream by unpacking Americans' dreams.... Burstein's elegantly crafted nightstand tome demonstrates that dreams reflect a distinctly... human desire to chart time via stories."-- Publishers Weekly, Before Sigmund Freud made dreams the cornerstone of understanding an individual's inner life, Americans shared their dreams unabashedly with one another through letters, diaries, and casual conversation. In this innovative book, highly regarded historian Andrew Burstein goes back for the first time to discover what we can learn about the lives and emotions of Americans, from colonial times to the beginning of the modern age. Through a thorough study of dreams recorded by iconic figuressuch as John and Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as everyday men and women, we glimpse the emotions of earlier generations and understand how those feelings shaped their lives and careers, thus gaining a fuller, multi-dimensional sense of our own past. No one has ever looked at the building blocks of the American identity in this way, and Burstein reveals important clues and landmarks that show the origins of the ideas and values that remain central to who we are today.
LC Classification Number
BF1078
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- c***m (426)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseAAA+++; Excellent Service; Great Pricing; Fast Delivery-Faster Than Expected to Hawaii , Received 07/27; Paperback book in Great Condition as Described ; TLC Packaging; Excellent Seller Communication, Sends updates . Highly Recommended!, Thank you very much!
- e***g (58)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseExcellent prices on used books in great condition. Shipped out quickly. Product condition is accurate to rating in listing. Thanks! NOTE: For this particular book (I ordered several), it came in a soft cover rather than hard cover as the listing stated. I contacted the seller and they responded promptly. They agreed that it was a listing error and provided me with a full refund for this book (without return required) proving they are both a responsible and trustworthy seller.
- 0***1 (1556)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThis book arrived within the time period given and was in the 'very good' condition described. Unfortunately, only being packaged in a plastic bag to traverse the Atlantic meant that all four corners got a battering (I would be happy to pay bit more in future for a bit of cardboard support in packaging) but all in all, the price was good and overall service for books that are difficult to get over here, I am very happy with this purchase and would recommend this seller. Will buy again from them.