Roundtable

(Since Roh sought to reunite the Korean peninsula through peace rather than war, I hope he makes it into Global Lincoln 2.) [...]the final chapter in the volume surveys American efforts to deploy the memory and image of Honest Abe in order to "sell" the United States abroad (as well as the ways in which others wielded Lincoln to criticize US Cold War policies). Scholars and their subjects, it seems, intersect in curious ways. Besides four chapters that stand somewhat apart - the editors' introductory essay, a chapter on Lincoln's own approach to foreign relations, one on Lincoln-hating in the US South, and the essay mentioned above - the rest of the chapters, thirteen in all, fall into two types. [...]Manela is right to note the irony that our conference and project is itself a part of the history of "Global Lincoln."