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Abraham Lincoln’s sense of humor proved legendary during his own time and remains a celebrated facet of his personality to this day. Indeed, his love of jokes—hearing them, telling them, drawing morals from them—prompted critics to dub Lincoln “the National Joker.” The political cartoons and print satires that mocked Lincoln often trafficked in precisely the same images and terms Lincoln humorously used to characterize himself. In this intriguing study, Todd Nathan Thompson considers the politically productive tension between Lincoln’s use of satire and the satiric treatments of him in political cartoons, humor periodicals, joke books, and campaign literature. By fashioning a folksy, fallible persona, Thompson shows, Lincoln was able to use satire as a weapon without being severely wounded by it. In his speeches, writings, and public persona, Lincoln combined modesty and attack, engaging in strategic self-deprecation while denouncing his opponents, their policies, and their arguments, thus refiguring satiric discourse as political discourse and vice versa. At the same time, he astutely deflected his opponents’ criticisms of him by embracing and sometimes preemptively initiating those criticisms. Thompson traces Lincoln’s comic sources and explains how, in reapplying others’ jokes and stories to political circumstances, he transformed humor into satire. Time and time again, Thompson shows, Lincoln engaged in self-mockery, turning negative assumptions or depictions of him—as ugly, cowardly, jocular, inexperienced—into positive traits that identified him as an everyman while attacking his opponents’ claims to greatness, heroism, and experience as aristocratic or demagogic. Thompson also considers how Lincoln took advantage of political cartoons and other media to help proliferate the particular Lincoln image of the “self-made man”; underscores exceptions to Lincoln’s ability to mitigate negative, satiric depictions of him; and closely examines political cartoons from both the 1860 and 1864 elections. Throughout, Thompson’s deft analysis brings to life Lincoln’s popular humor. 

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This is an unusual Lincoln book. It analyzes Lincoln's treatment by political cartoonists, as well as his management of his public image and use of storytelling to make political points and entertain his audiences. The book examines Lincoln's deft use of self-ridicule to pre-empt and neutralize disparagement of his humble background and anatomical peculiarities in print and imagery. The book is interesting and well written throughout, but is somewhat repetitive. Of particular value is the selection of cartoons and the information on development of techniques allowing wide dissemination of these works at this pivotal time in the nation's history. The contrast between those cartoons and contemporary ones was striking to me. These Civil War era artists really knew anatomy, unlike many graphic artists today. Because of the inherent appeal of the human body, accurate drawings offer esthetic appeal just by their draftsmanship. Also noteworthy is the detail of these earlier works, which often feature a multitude of political actors recognizably drawn, and captions festooning the panel in various locations. As a result, a single cartoon can convey several political messages. The famous Thomas Nast began his career at this time, and his efforts are exemplary. Also striking to me were the many references to the Classics and literature in general. Readers then apparently were often better educated in the humanities than students today. For example, the young author himself apparently was ignorant of the notion of the incubus, the nightmarish demon that sat on the stomach of victims to torment them, which is depicted in one cartoon in the form of Lincoln stifling a supine Jefferson Davis. In short, this short book offers an entertaining and informative monograph to the art lover, Lincoln buff, and student of rhetoric.

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