Abraham Lincoln in the post-heroic era [electronic resource] : history and memory in late twentieth-century America / Barry Schwartz.
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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.Description: xvi, 394 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification: - 973.7092 B 22
- E457.2 .S383 2008eb
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.
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