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Trachtenberg, Alan. Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas. Hill & Wang: Farrar. Feb. 2007. c.416p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-8090-4297-5 [ISBN 978-0-8090-4297-5]. $27. HIST
Trachtenberg (English & American studies, Yale Univ.; Shades of Hiawatha), the author of many books dealing with American culture, has compiled 19 of his lectures and essays from the past 40 years, which he divides into three sections. Part 1, which covers the mid-19th century, deals primarily with the new invention of photography, especially the Daguerreotype. Part 2 looks at the literature of the Gilded Age (e.g., Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn), with an excursion into architecture (Auditorium Building, …