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

By: Schwartz, Barry, 1938-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008Description: xvi, 394 p. : illSubject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.7092 | B LOC classification: E457.2 | .S383 2008Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-370) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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