Abraham Lincoln in the post-heroic era : history and memory in late twentieth-century America / / Barry Schwartz.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 394 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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.