CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC – Central Square Theater Spring 2014 Auction
Auction Ends: Jun 13, 2014 11:00 PM EDT

Signed Books

Signed Copy of John Stauffer's "Giants"

Item Number
517
Estimated Value
Priceless
Sold
30 USD to hopkins
Number of Bids
3  -  Bid History

Item Description

Stauffer's collective biography stands apart from other biographies by focusing on how each man continually remade himself, with help from women, words, self-education, physical strength, and luck. In the process Stauffer gives us the texture and feel--a "thick description"--of the strange worlds that Douglass and Lincoln inhabited. The result is a path-breaking work that dissolves traditional conceptions of these two seminal figures (Lincoln the "redeemer" president, Douglass the assimilationist). He reveals how Douglass towered over Lincoln as a brilliant orator, writer, agitator, and public figure for most of his life. He shows us how words became potent weapons for both men. And he tells the poignant story of how these preeminent self-made men ultimately converged, despite their vastly different agendas and politics, and helped transform the nation."

-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University, author of The African American Century

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