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

Author: Schwartz, Barry, 1938-

Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

ISBN: 9780226741888 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226741885 (cloth : alk. paper)

Description: xvi, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Public opinion.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Influence.
Presidents United States Biography.
Multiculturalism United States.
United States History 20th century.

Contents: Ascension : Lincoln in the 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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HWLC 6th Floor Adult E457.2.S383 2008 Hardcover Not checked out 10/06/2009
Lincoln Park Adult E457.2.S383 2008 Hardcover Not checked out 04/15/2011
Oriole Park Adult E457.2.S383 2008 Hardcover Not checked out 10/19/2009
South Shore Adult E457.2.S383 2008 Hardcover Not checked out 06/06/2009
Sulzer Regional Adult E457.2.S383 2008 Hardcover Not checked out 11/10/2011