1. Creator/Author:
  2. Schwartz, Barry, (4)

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

Other Title:
History and memory in late twentieth-century America
Authors:
Schwartz, Barry,
Item ID:
71200908408061
Publisher:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
ISBN:
9780226741888 (cloth : alk. paper) :; 0226741885 (cloth : alk. paper)
Call Number:
E457.2 .S383 2008
Physical Description:
xvi, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Topic:
Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Multiculturalism -- United States.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Public opinion.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Influence.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-370) and index.; 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.
OCLC Number:
ocn222153058
Holding Institution:
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Available for Viewing:
By appointment only
Category:
Books & Pamphlets