Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America

by Barry Schwartz

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226741885
• ISBN13: 9780226741888
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"