Excerpt from The Martyr President: A Discourse Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, Penn Yan, Sabbath Morning, April 16th, 1865, on the Death of Abraham Lincoln Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel. Samuel, iii, 38. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord - Job, i, 21. Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept. And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him. - 2 Samuel, iii, 31, 32, 33, 34. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"[A]n astonishingly interesting interpretation…Fox is wonderfully shrewd and often dazzling." —Jill Lepore, New York Times Book Review Abraham Lincoln remains America’s most beloved leader. The fact that he was lampooned in his day as "ugly and grotesque" only made Lincoln more endearing to millions. In Lincoln’s Body, acclaimed cultural historian Richard Wightman Fox explores how deeply, and how differently, Americans—black and white, male and female, Northern and Southern—have valued our sixteenth president, from his own lifetime to the Hollywood biopics about him. Lincoln continues to survive in a body of memory that speaks volumes about our nation.