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1 online resource (xvi, 394 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-370) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Public opinion
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Influence.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 fast |
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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Multiculturalism -- United States
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Multiculturalism
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Presidents
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Public opinion
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United States -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140291
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008026876 |
| ISBN |
9780226741901 |
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0226741907 |
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1281966398 |
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9781281966391 |
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9786611966393 |
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6611966390 |
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