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Abraham Lincoln in the post-heroic era : history and memory in late twentieth-century America

Title
Abraham Lincoln in the post-heroic era : history and memory in late twentieth-century America / Barry Schwartz.
Author
Schwartz, Barry, 1938-
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.

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Description
xvi, 394 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-370) and index.
Contents
Ascension : Lincoln in the Great Depression -- Apex : Lincoln in the Second World War -- Transition : Cold War, racial conflict, and contested images of Lincoln -- Transfiguration : civil rights movement, vanishing savior of the Union -- Erosion : fading prestige, benign ridicule -- Post-heroic era : acids of equality and the waning of greatness -- Inertia : the enduring Lincoln.
Call Number
IAG 09-4204
ISBN
  • 9780226741888 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226741885 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008026876
OCLC
222153058
Author
Schwartz, Barry, 1938-
Title
Abraham Lincoln in the post-heroic era : history and memory in late twentieth-century America / Barry Schwartz.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-370) and index.
Research Call Number
IAG 09-4204
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