"One hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the full story of his extraordinary relationship with Jews is told here for the first time. [This book] provides readers both with a ... narrative of his interactions with Jews, and with the opportunity to immerse themselves in rare manuscripts and images, many from the Shapell Lincoln Collection, that show Lincoln in a way he has never been seen before"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher:
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2015
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781250059536
1250059534
1250059534
Branch Call Number:
973.70892 SA744L 2015
Characteristics:
xiii, 272 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 29 cm
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Benjamin Shapell is the Founder and President of the Shapell Manuscript Foundation, an independent educational organization whose collection includes original documents from world-renowned individuals, including the American presidents and Mark Twain. Shapell initiated and oversaw the creation of numerous publications, exhibitions, and films relating to the central themes of the collection. The Foundation has also partnered in exhibitions with major institutions, including the New-York Historical Society, the Morgan Library and Museum, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Israel, and the Smithsonian Institution.