Abraham Lincoln in the post-heroic era [electronic resource] : history and memory in late twentieth-century America / Barry Schwartz.
2008
E457.2 .S383 2008eb
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Abraham Lincoln in the post-heroic era [electronic resource] : history and memory in late twentieth-century America / Barry Schwartz.
Author
Schwartz, Barry, 1938-
ISBN
9780226741888 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226741885 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226741885 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 394 p. : ill.
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E457.2 .S383 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.7092 B
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-370) and index.
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Table of 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.
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.