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LINCOLN: His LIFE IN PICTURES-Stefan Lorant-Due//, Sloan & Pearce...
...best sequence of Lincoln photographs ever issued in book form has been edited by a Hungarian-born emigre journalist, Stefan Lorant. The book includes more than 100 photographs of Lincoln, many of them never before published; some 300 photographs of Lincoln's associates, advisers, generals, friends and enemies. One remarkable sequence is a photographic record of Lincoln's transformation from a rather smug frontier lawyer (Picture No. 1) to the brooding savior of the Union (Picture No. 2 taken on a broken plate five days before he was shot). Before Editor Lorant nobody had ever thought...
Also included in the book: a brief biographical sketch of Lincoln by Editor Lorant; important documents (among them the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation) in Lincoln's handwriting; the photographic record of the assassination...
...Stefan Lorant is also author of the best-selling I Was Hitler's Prisoner, which British Editor Wickham Steed said would outlast the Third Reich. After the Hungarian Government got him out of a Nazi concentration camp, Lorant started Picture Post in London, ran up its circulation to 1,500,000 in a few weeks. With his first U.S. citizenship papers in his pocket, Lorant is working on a pictorial history of the U.S., of which Lincoln will be a part...
...there's been a mistake, you've sent a gout up to maternity"), 40 photographs (John D. Rockefeller Sr., nudes, still life, Mussolini holding his nose), seven color plates (Hogarth's The Graham Children, Correggio's Venus, Mercury and Cupid). Editor is Hungarian-born Stefan Lorant, capable but not popular in Fleet Street. He first made a name on the Münchner Illustrierte Presse, was tossed into jail for six months when Hitler came to power, wrote a book about it (I was Hitler's Prisoner), then built up Weekly Illustrated for Odhams Press...