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Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory (Paperback, New edition)
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Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory (Paperback, New edition)
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Abraham Lincoln has long dominated the pantheon of American
presidents. From his lavish memorial in Washington and
immortalization on Mount Rushmore, one might assume he was a
national hero rather than a controversial president who came close
to losing his 1864 bid for reelection. In "Abraham Lincoln and the
Forge of National Memory," Barry Schwartz aims at these
contradictions in his study of Lincoln's reputation, from the
president's death through the industrial revolution to his
apotheosis during the Progressive Era and First World War.
Schwartz draws on a wide array of materials--painting and
sculpture, popular magazines and school textbooks, newspapers and
oratory--to examine the role that Lincoln's memory has played in
American life. He explains, for example, how dramatic funeral rites
elevated Lincoln's reputation even while funeral eulogists
questioned his presidential actions, and how his reputation
diminished and grew over the next four decades. Schwartz links
transformations of Lincoln's image to changes in the society.
Commemorating Lincoln helped Americans to think about their
country's development from a rural republic to an industrial
democracy and to articulate the way economic and political reform,
military power, ethnic and race relations, and nationalism enhanced
their conception of themselves as one people.
Lincoln's memory assumed a double aspect of "mirror" and "lamp,"
acting at once as a reflection of the nation's concerns and an
illumination of its ideals, and Schwartz offers a fascinating view
of these two functions as they were realized in the commemorative
symbols of an ever-widening circle of ethnic, religious, political,
and regional communities. Thefirst part of a study that will
continue through the present, "Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of
National Memory" is the story of how America has shaped its past
selectively and imaginatively around images rooted in a real person
whose character and achievements helped shape his country's future.
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