Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum

by Edward Tabor Linenthal

Book Overview

Since its first year in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has attracted more than 15 millino visitors, sometimes at the rate of 10,000 a day, each of whom has walked away with an indelible impression of awe in the face of the unimaginable. This lively, honest, behind-the-scenes account details the emotionally complex fifteen-year struggle surrounding the museum's birth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231124074
• ISBN13: 9780231124072
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

An Interesting Read

A Highly informative and yet very readable account of the building of the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC and the politics behind it. This is one of those books that by the end you have learned alot.