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1 online resource (xvi, 394 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-370) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. |
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Public opinion.
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Public opinion. |
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Influence.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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Presidents. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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United States -- History -- 20th century.
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History. |
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20th century |
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Multiculturalism -- United States.
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Multiculturalism. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Schwartz, Barry, 1938- Abraham Lincoln in the post-heroic era. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008 9780226741888 0226741885 (DLC) 2008026876 (OCoLC)222153058 |
| ISBN |
9780226741901 (electronic book) |
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0226741907 (electronic book) |
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1281966398 |
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9781281966391 |
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9780226741888 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226741885 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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