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Fiction Satire

Lincoln's Briefs

by (author) Michael Wayne

Publisher
Iguana Books
Initial publish date
Aug 2018
Category
Satire, History, Humorous
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551303659
    Publish Date
    Oct 2009
    List Price
    $24.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771802895
    Publish Date
    Aug 2018
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

Yale Templeton, an undistinguished professor of History at a university in Toronto, has made a shocking discovery: Abraham Lincoln was not, in fact, assassinated, but faked his own death so that he could assume a new identity and move to Canada. And the reason for Lincoln's ruse? Even more shocking. When the news breaks, the sitting President enlists his chief security officers to find the incriminating evidence and silence Templeton.

Lincoln's Briefs is both a burlesque of university life and a satiric unravelling of Canadian - and American - national identity. It is also, in its own madcap way, a manifesto for the right of all people to lay claim to their true selves.

About the author

Michael Wayne is a professor of history, emeritus at the University of Toronto. He is the prize winning author of three books of American history: Death of an Overseer, The Reshaping of Plantation Society, and Imagining Black America. In Lincoln’s Briefs, his first novel, he gives himself free rein to explore the satiric side of historical possibilities. He comes by his affinity for parody honestly, or perhaps genetically. His father is the late Johnny Wayne of the iconic comedy team Wayne and Shuster.

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