Abraham Lincoln in the post-heroic era [electronic resource] : history and memory in late twentieth-century America / Barry Schwartz.

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.