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.