Lincoln Dreamt He Died: The Midnight Visions of Remarkable Americans from Colonial Times to Freud de Andrew Burstein

Lincoln Dreamt He Died: The Midnight Visions of Remarkable Americans from Colonial Times to Freud

Andrew Burstein

For the first time, historian Andrew Burstein explores the relationship between dreams and the establishment of 'American' psyche, a dynamic that remains central to the ideas and values upheld by the country today. Including a study of dreams recorded by iconic American figures such as John and Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.

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Before Sigmund Freud made dreams the cornerstone of understanding an individual’s inner life, Americans shared their dreams unabashedly with one another through letters, diaries, and casual conversation. In this innovative new book, highly regarded historian Andrew Burstein goes back for the first time to discover what we can learn about the lives and emotions of Americans, from colonial times to the beginning of the modern age. Through a thorough study of dreams recorded by iconic figures such as John and Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as everyday men and women, we glimpse the emotions of earlier generations and understand how those feelings shaped their lives and careers, and thus gain a fuller multi-dimensional sense of our own past. No one has ever looked at the building blocks of the American identity in this way, and Burstein reveals important clues andlandmarks that show theorigins of the ideas and values that remain central to who we are today.

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Andrew Burstein is the Charles P. Manship Professor of History at Louisiana State University, andthe author of The Passions of Andrew Jackson, Jefferson’s Secrets, and Madison and Jefferson, among others. Burstein’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and Salon.com, and he advised Ken Burns’s production "Thomas Jefferson." He has been featured on C-SPAN's American Presidents Series and Booknotes, as well as numerous NPR programs, including Talk of the Nation and The Diane Rehm Show. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Historians have studied early American thought through politics, economics, and social history but Andrew Burstein is the first to investigate the recesses of its subconscious
Burstein reveals the dreams of such American icons as John and Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Rush, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Abraham Lincoln, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain
Burstein is well-known for his ability to engage readers in complex ideas with compelling and lyrical writing

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Preț: 131^.04 lei