Lincoln Dreamt He Died: The Midnight Visions of Remarkable Americans from Colonial Times to Freud
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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 and landmarks that show the origins of the ideas and values that remain central to who we are today.
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LOC Call Number
BF1091 .B98 2013
ISBN
9781137278272
Publication Date
2013
Department
Department of History
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
New York
Recommended Citation
Burstein, Andrew, "Lincoln Dreamt He Died: The Midnight Visions of Remarkable Americans from Colonial Times to Freud" (2013).