Author Jackie Hogan explores why Abraham Linc oln permeates the national imagination in “Selling Abraham Lincoln” on Sund ay, February 12 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at Peoria Public Library North Branc h. Hogan, Chair of Sociology at Bradley University, explores the topic in h er latest book, Lincoln, Inc. Copies will be available for sale and signing after the discussion to benefit the Friends of Peoria Public Librar y.
From Lincoln-themed cocktails and waffle parlors to high-tech museums and steamy romance novel s, the image of Abraham Lincoln can now be found in the unlikeliest of plac es. In Lincoln, Inc. Jackie Hogan examines the uses and abuses of th e sixteenth President in our country today. The book considers the place of Honest Abe in America’s classrooms, historic sites, blockbuster films, adv ertisements and heated debates about issues such as abortion, homosexuality and the war on terror. But Lincoln, Inc. is more than a tour through the t hriving “Lincoln industry” today. It analyzes the ways we employ Lincoln in our political, idealogical, personal and national struggles; the ways we s imultaneously defy and exploit him, the ways he is packaged and sold in the marketplace of American ideas. In learning about “Lincoln, Inc.” we learn about ourselves, about who we think we are as a nation, and who we wish we could be.
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