The National Joker

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Abraham Lincoln's love of jokes prompted critics to dub him "the National Joker”. The political cartoons and print satires that mocked Lincoln often trafficked in precisely the same images and terms Lincoln humorously used to characterize himself. In this intriguing study, Todd Nathan Thompson considers the politically productive tension between Lincoln's use of satire and satiric treatments of him.