New book by the Metropolitan Museum’s head of external affairs
Harold Holzer, who moonlights as a Lincoln scholar when he’s not working as the Metropolitan Museum’s senior vice president for external affairs (or is he moonlighting at the Met?), will publish later this month yet another of his many books on the 16th President: Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861. It’s hard to keep up with all these literary museum PR people.
Unfortunately, the New Yorker didn’t keep up with this late-breaking Abe news. Thomas Mallon‘s Oct. 13 books column, pegged to another new Lincoln-related tome, didn’t even mention Holzer’s.
Harold also has his own website (who knew?), where you can learn about his extensive tour to discuss the former President-elect. Does he really have time for these travels? I thought they needed him on Fifth Avenue to field all those media requests for interviews with the museum’s new Director-elect. (JUST KIDDING! Harold always puts the Met first; Abe second.)
Speaking of which, the November issue of ARTnews will feature interviews with both Thomas Campbell and Richard Armstrong.