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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 394 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-370) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226741901 0226741907 1281966398 9781281966391 9786611966393 6611966390 |