{"product_id":"lincolns-gift-from-homer-new-york-a-painter-an-editor-and-a-detective-9780786463695","title":"Lincoln's Gift from Homer, New York: A Painter, an Editor and a Detective","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Martin A. Sweeney\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Presidents \u0026amp; Heads of State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Although Illinois enjoys the indisputable title of \"The Land of Lincoln,\" one small town in New York State played a significant role in the sixteenth president's history. Three native sons of Homer--a detective, a journalist, and a painter--helped inscribe Abraham Lincoln's place in the nation's iconic imagery. Private investigator Eli DeVoe foiled an assassination plot against Lincoln before his first inauguration; journalist William Osborn Stoddard, an early Lincoln supporter, became an influential secretary of the president; and artist Francis Bicknell Carpenter painted \u003ci\u003eThe First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet\u003c\/i\u003e, which still hangs in the U.S. Capitol. This exploration of these men and the town that produced them offers insight into the complexities of presidential image-making, and reveals why a small New York town has become a choice destination for Lincoln historians.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46867518685335,"sku":"9780786463695","price":2826.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786463695.webp?v=1769986049","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lincolns-gift-from-homer-new-york-a-painter-an-editor-and-a-detective-9780786463695","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}