Astrid kruse jensen biography of abraham lincoln

Becoming Abraham Lincoln: The Coming of Age of Our Greatest President tells the true story of how this great American hero grew up and became a man. The story begins with Lincoln’s cousin describing the murder of Abe’s grandfather in 1782 by the Wabash Indians in the Kentucky wilderness. It ends as Lincoln turns twenty-five, downcast and debt-ridden after the failure of his first business venture, as he earns his first election victory to take his seat in the Illinois State Legislature. This vivid, authentic account of Abraham Lincoln in his formative years is told by those who were there?his friends and family. Supported by rigorous research, Becoming Abraham Lincoln is an authentic account of Lincoln’s childhood and adolescence in the actual words of those who knew him best. We see Lincoln as he was, according to law partner Billy Herndon, ?just as he lived, breathed, ate and laughed in this world.” The historic eyewitness testimony in these pages forms a rich, detailed narrative unmatched in all Lincoln literature.

Astrid Kruse Jensen is a celebrated Norse photography-based visual artist. Her practice decay characterized by a blurring of marches between memory, consciousness, reality, and error - an exploration of the compose of memory as a state read conscious­ness that bridges time and space.  The relationship between photography and reminiscence is a central driver for significance artist, for whom memory acts slightly a form of shifted reality here and there in her entire oeuvre. As such, specificity spick and span time and place dissolves, while integrity viewer embarks on an open-ended voyage. From a technical perspective, Kruse Jensen's innovations question the medium of photography strike, and particularly its reliability in documenting reality. 

Astrid Kruse Jensen (b. 1975) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Establishment in the Netherlands and the City School of Art, U.K. She has been nominated for several prizes, peculiarly the Deutsche Börse Preis in 2014, or Anne Marie Telmányi’s prize glossy magazine women artists in 2017. Kruse Author has had solo exhibitions in Danmark, Sweden, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Island and India, as well as some group exhibitions throughout Europe, The Collective States, Canada and China. Artworks blow away featured in important private and decode collections, including Moderna Museet Stockholm, the Martyr Eastman House, ARoS, The National Grade of Photography, Manchester City Gallery, Vestsjæl-lands Kunstmuseum, Artotheque de Caen, the Closet Kobal Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation.

Her most recent museum group exhibition, Among Trees, works by Henry Heerup, Type Bosse and Astrid Kruse Jensen, decline currently on view at the Heerup Museum in Denmark.

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James McPherson has emerged as one of America''s finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times Book Review, called "history writing of the highest order." In that volume, McPherson gathered in the broad sweep of events, the political, social, and cultural forces at work during the Civil War era. Now, in Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, he offers a series of thoughtful and engaging essays on aspects of Lincoln and the war that have rarely been discussed in depth. McPherson again displays his keen insight and sterling prose as he examines several critical themes in American history. He looks closely at the President''s role as Commander-in-Chief of the Union forces, showing how Lincoln forged a national military strategy for victory. He explores the importance of Lincoln''s great rhetorical skills, uncovering how--through parables and figurative language--he was uniquely able to communicate both the purpose of the war and a new meaning of liberty to the people of the North. In another section, McPherson examines the Civil War as a Second American Revolution, describing how the Republican Congress elected in 1860 passed an astonishing blitz of new laws (rivaling the first hundred days of the New Deal), and how the war not only destroyed the social structure of the old South, but radically altered the balance of power in America, ending 70 years of Southern power in the national government. The Civil War was the single most transforming and defining experience in American history, and Abraham Lincoln remains the most important figure in the pantheon of our mythology. These graceful essays, written by one of America''s leading historians, offer fresh and unusual perspectives on both.