VINNIE REAM And Mr. Lincoln

by Freeman H. Hubbard ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

This is a combination of biography and a story of the nation's capital in wartime. Vinnie Ream was the sculptress who did the statue of Lincoln which stands in the rotunda of the Capitol. She was little more than a child when the passion to become a sculptor seized her, and still a schoolgirl when she started working with Clark Mills and seventeen when Lincoln posed for her. This career story is told against the background of Washington, the Civil War, spies, problems of Southern sympathizers, and the general tension of a wartime capital. Not top ranking on the score of style; it seems a little over-simplified. But easy and pleasant reading- and fresh material.

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Publisher: Whittlesey House

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1949

Categories: NONFICTION