Book Review Lincolns Campaign Biographies
Horrocks, Thomas A. Lincolns Campaign Biographies (Concise Lincoln Library) Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 2014. 148 pages 106 pages of text, index, notes, selected bibliography, b/w illustrations. ISBN 9780809333318, $24.95. The more things change the more they stay the same. In many ways this is a truism in political campaigns. While modern technology has dramatically changed the campaign trail, often times making image more important than substance, many things are still the same. Modern Americans demand that their politicians be polished, rehearsed, and personally available. In Abraham Lincolns time this was not the case. Lincoln could hardly be called polished and most active campaigning was done by supporters rather than the candidates themselves. In four quick reading chapters and a conclusion author Thomas A. Horrocks outlines the history of politics and print and how the Lincoln campaigns played into this. Chapter one discusses the relationship b...