Author: Richard Carwardine
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809336146
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
"Abraham Lincoln was the first president consistently to make storytelling and laughter tools of office. This book shows how his uses of humor evolved to fit changing personal circumstances, and explores its versatility, range of expressions, and multiple sources"--
Lincoln's Sense of Humor
Author: Richard Carwardine
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809336146
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
"Abraham Lincoln was the first president consistently to make storytelling and laughter tools of office. This book shows how his uses of humor evolved to fit changing personal circumstances, and explores its versatility, range of expressions, and multiple sources"--
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809336146
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
"Abraham Lincoln was the first president consistently to make storytelling and laughter tools of office. This book shows how his uses of humor evolved to fit changing personal circumstances, and explores its versatility, range of expressions, and multiple sources"--
Lincoln Tells a Joke
Author: Kathleen Krull
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547487924
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Poor Abraham Lincoln! His life was hardly fun at all. A country torn in two by war, citizens who didn’t like him as president, a homely appearance—what could there possibly be to laugh about? And yet he did laugh. Lincoln wasn’t just one of our greatest presidents. He was a comic storyteller and a person who could lighten a grim situation with a clever quip. This unusual biography of Lincoln highlights his life and presidency, focusing on what made his sense of humor so distinctive—and so necessary to surviving his tough life and times.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547487924
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Poor Abraham Lincoln! His life was hardly fun at all. A country torn in two by war, citizens who didn’t like him as president, a homely appearance—what could there possibly be to laugh about? And yet he did laugh. Lincoln wasn’t just one of our greatest presidents. He was a comic storyteller and a person who could lighten a grim situation with a clever quip. This unusual biography of Lincoln highlights his life and presidency, focusing on what made his sense of humor so distinctive—and so necessary to surviving his tough life and times.
Abraham Lincoln Joke Book
Author: Beatrice Schenk De Regniers
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780394810799
Category : Wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Here are the wit and wisdom of a great American, more than sixty jokes and humorous stories told by and about Abraham Lincoln. He used humor to prove a point, to help answer questions, or to cheer up people around him--P. 1.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780394810799
Category : Wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Here are the wit and wisdom of a great American, more than sixty jokes and humorous stories told by and about Abraham Lincoln. He used humor to prove a point, to help answer questions, or to cheer up people around him--P. 1.
Abraham Lincoln's Humor
Author:
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486848833
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This collection of jokes and yarns reflects the homespun humor Lincoln developed as a traveling lawyer, which later proved an effective tool for negotiating policy, gaining influence, and imparting moral lessons.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486848833
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This collection of jokes and yarns reflects the homespun humor Lincoln developed as a traveling lawyer, which later proved an effective tool for negotiating policy, gaining influence, and imparting moral lessons.
Abe Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter
Author: Paul M. Zall
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572335851
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter, a substantial revision of P. M. Zall's 1982 classic, Abe Lincoln Laughing, consists of stories, jokes, and anecdotes on a wide range of topics by and about Abraham Lincoln before and after he became president. Establishing which tales are authentic and which are frauds and delusions, Abraham Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter includes stories derived from Lincoln's writings and speeches; writings by others up to April 1865; post-Civil War writings by those who knew him; and writings by others about Lincoln in later decades, including a sample from the twentieth century. Within each group, entries are arranged in the order they appeared in print. The volume contains notes, a bibliography, an index of the entries by section, and a subject index.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572335851
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter, a substantial revision of P. M. Zall's 1982 classic, Abe Lincoln Laughing, consists of stories, jokes, and anecdotes on a wide range of topics by and about Abraham Lincoln before and after he became president. Establishing which tales are authentic and which are frauds and delusions, Abraham Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter includes stories derived from Lincoln's writings and speeches; writings by others up to April 1865; post-Civil War writings by those who knew him; and writings by others about Lincoln in later decades, including a sample from the twentieth century. Within each group, entries are arranged in the order they appeared in print. The volume contains notes, a bibliography, an index of the entries by section, and a subject index.
Abraham Lincoln's Humor
Author:
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486843637
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This collection of jokes and yarns reflects the homespun humor Lincoln developed as a traveling lawyer, which later proved an effective tool for negotiating policy, gaining influence, and imparting moral lessons.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486843637
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This collection of jokes and yarns reflects the homespun humor Lincoln developed as a traveling lawyer, which later proved an effective tool for negotiating policy, gaining influence, and imparting moral lessons.
Abe Lincoln's Jokes
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Why Lincoln Laughed
Author: Russell Conwell
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
One who lived in Lincoln's time, and who has read the thousand books they say have been written about him in the half century since his death, may still be dissatisfied with every description of his personality and with every analysis of his character. He was human, and yet in some mysterious degree superhuman. Nothing in philosophy, magic, superstition, or religion furnishes a satisfactory explanation to the thoughtful devotee for the inspiration he gave out or for the transfiguring glow which at times seemed to illumine his homely frame and awkward gestures._x000D_ Russell Conwell (1843-1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
One who lived in Lincoln's time, and who has read the thousand books they say have been written about him in the half century since his death, may still be dissatisfied with every description of his personality and with every analysis of his character. He was human, and yet in some mysterious degree superhuman. Nothing in philosophy, magic, superstition, or religion furnishes a satisfactory explanation to the thoughtful devotee for the inspiration he gave out or for the transfiguring glow which at times seemed to illumine his homely frame and awkward gestures._x000D_ Russell Conwell (1843-1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer.
Lincoln's Humor and Other Essays
Author: Benjamin P. Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780252073403
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gathers the uncollected work on Lincoln by Benjamin P Thomas, regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. This diverse collection is enhanced by an introduction by Michael Burlingame, himself a leading biographer of Lincoln, who provides a portrait of Thomas and his circuitous path toward writing history.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780252073403
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gathers the uncollected work on Lincoln by Benjamin P Thomas, regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. This diverse collection is enhanced by an introduction by Michael Burlingame, himself a leading biographer of Lincoln, who provides a portrait of Thomas and his circuitous path toward writing history.
"Abe" Lincoln's Yarns and Stories
Author: Alexander Kelly McClure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description