Summers With Lincoln: Looking For The Man In The Monuments

Summers with Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments

ReviewPercoco, a Lincoln scholar who recently published his third book, "Summers With Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments," doesn't run a typical history course. The seniors spend only part of the year in class. Many of their lessons come as they volunteer at or visit the area's historical sites. That's the "applied" part of the course. - -Washington PostLooks ata the American President and his legacy from the viewpoint of seven monuments around the country. - -The Lewisboro Ledger. . . A captivating book that chronicles four summers on the road looking for Lincoln stories in statues of marble and bronze. - -The AIHE GazetteIn Summers with Lincoln: The Man Behind the Monuments, James A. Percoco intrepidly explores the past to share the history of how seven of these monuments came to be, what they meant to their sculptors and the public at their unveilings and what they mean to us today. - -The Washington TimesAcross the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly 200 statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated.A few years ago, anticipating the bicentennial of Lincoln