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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press,
©2008.
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| ISBN: | 9780226741901 0226741907 1281966398 9781281966391 9786611966393 6611966390 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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.