Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press | ISBN: 0226741885 | edition 2009 | PDF | 410 pages | 2,7 mb
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press | ISBN: 0226741885 | edition 2009 | PDF | 410 pages | 2,7 mb
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.