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

By the 1920s, Abraham Lincoln had transcended the lingering controversies of the Civil War to become a secular saint, honored in North and South alike for his steadfast leadership in crisis. Throughout the Great Depression and World War II, Lincoln was invoked countless times as a reminder of Americ...

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1. Verfasser: Schwartz, Barry, 1938-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008.
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Zusammenfassung:By the 1920s, Abraham Lincoln had transcended the lingering controversies of the Civil War to become a secular saint, honored in North and South alike for his steadfast leadership in crisis. Throughout the Great Depression and World War II, Lincoln was invoked countless times as a reminder of America's strength and wisdom, a commanding ideal against which weary citizens could see their own hardships in perspective. But as Barry Schwartz reveals in Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era, those years represent the apogee of Lincoln's prestige. The decades following World War II brought radical c.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 394 pages :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-370) and index.
ISBN:9780226741901
0226741907
1281966398
9781281966391
9786611966393
6611966390