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315 Appendix: Annotated Bibliography of the Books of Paul Simon 1. Lovejoy: Martyr to Freedom. St. Louis: Concordia Press, 1964. Lovejoy was the forerunner of the much more widely known and highly praised Freedom’s Champion: Elijah Lovejoy, published thirty-one years later. This earlier book was written for a teenage audience and was published by Concordia Press, the publishing arm of the Lutheran church of which Paul Simon was a life-long member. Elijah Lovejoy was a newspaper editor who was also a pastor mostly in and around St. Louis, Missouri. As he matured and observed life in St. Louis, especially the plight of black people and slaves, he became an ardent foe of slavery. He took up the cause on the pages of his newspaper, at first timidly and then with increased vigor and vitriol. As the subtitle indicates, his abolitionist writings ultimately led to his murder by a proslavery mob. This book was intended to be one in a series about early American heroes who could be inspirational figures for young people to learn from and emulate. See item number 15 below for the more completely developed and adult-oriented edition of this work. 2. Lincoln’s Preparation for Greatness: The Illinois Legislature Years. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. Reissued, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1971. Many people believe that this is Paul Simon’s best book, and it is certainly the most scholarly one. It is filled with references to primary documents and with detailed footnotes. Simon went to the library and sought out books on Lincoln’s early years in Springfield and on his legislative career. To his surprise, he found that out of the long list of works on Lincoln, there was no 316 Appendix book covering the era of the young Abe Lincoln’s career in New Salem and Springfield. So, Simon decided to write one himself. How did Lincoln get into politics, and what kind of politician was he in the rough and tumble of Illinois politics that swirled around the state capital in Springfield? This is the story of a surprisingly practical politician who learned to ply his trade in state politics at a time when there was plenty of intrigue and even outright corruption in Illinois. While Lincoln was pragmatic and worked hard to represent his people and get the job done for them, he also had solid Whig principles that he adhered to as he sought to be a successful legislator. Simon paints Lincoln as an effective legislator who was not above bargaining, deal making, and logrolling but who was incorruptible and principled in his maneuvering through the legislative labyrinth. As the title implies, there is much in the story of the young Abraham Lincoln in Springfield that prepared him to become perhaps the greatest president in U.S. history. Simon contends that if you want to understand Lincoln in Washington, you must first understand Lincoln in Springfield. 3. A Hungry World. St. Louis: Concordia Press, 1966. This third book of Simon’s shows that world hunger was an early interest of his, and it was a cause he followed and wrote about throughout his public career. Like the first Lovejoy book, this one was published by Concordia Press for the Lutheran church. The young Paul Simon couched his writings in an explicitly Christian context, and he makes hunger, whether in India or the United States, a moral issue that he felt should compel a response from religious people. If feeding the poor is not a Christian obligation, endorsed by the Gospels, what is, asks Simon rhetorically. He notes the irony of too much food and too much obesity in the United States juxtaposed against a backdrop of pervasive hunger throughout the world and even in some places in America. The influence of his early background, especially growing up in the home of a Lutheran pastor and missionary to China, is everywhere evident in this work. It is clearly the precursor to the much more ambitious and more famous volume The Politics of World Hunger that Paul published with his brother, Arthur, in 1973. 4.Protestant-CatholicMarriagesCanSucceed(withJeanneHurleySimon).New York: Association Press, Published by the National Board of the YMCA, 1967. Paul Simon was a Lutheran and Jeanne Hurley was a Catholic when they first met as young and aspiring legislators in the Illinois House of Representatives. Jeanne, one of a small number of women elected to the [18.191.46.36] Project MUSE (2024-04-24 13...

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