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The World War II Memorial: A Grateful Nation Remembers
 Douglas Brinkley
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The stunning companion volume to America’s long-awaited WWII Memorial. Assuming its rightful place of honor on the National Mall between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the World War II Memorial is an eloquent and moving tribute to "The Greatest Generation." Sixteen million Americans served in the armed forces—more than 400,000 gave their lives—and millions supported the war effort from home, all in the name of protecting that which we, as Americans, hold most dear: freedom. The World War II Memorial, published in conjunction with the dedication of this long-overdue memorial, commemorates the everyday Americans who in countless ways rose up to defeat one of history’s gravest threats to freedom. Veterans—including George H.W. Bush, Sen. Daniel Inouye, former senators Bob Dole and George McGovern, Yogi Berra, and many, many others—contribute their own personal stories while leading historians look at the military campaigns of the war. The memorial’s architect and its sculptor provide insights into how it symbolizes the fortitude and perseverance of a generation, and the exclusive photographs present the memorial through all stages of construction. Fittingly, this historic tribute falls in the 60th anniversary year of D-Day, a time when our nation once again reflects on its greatest sacrifice and greatest victory in the name of freedom. 100 color and 125 b-w photographs. Douglas Brinkley is the Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans and author of Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War.
From The Critics:
Publishers WeeklyA fine companion to the PBS documentary on the memorial, this coffee-table volume begins and ends with useful histories and discussions of the memorial itself. In between are summaries from Brinkley (Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War, etc.) of land, sea and air campaigns, in Europe and the Pacific; of the home front, including war production and daily life; of women’s roles. Interspersed with the narratives are the personal tales of WWII veterans, including All-Star Pitcher Bob Feller, a battleship sailor; Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier; and a young Annapolis graduate who commanded a submarine at the end of the war, with a parallel tale by his wife. Well-chosen and well-reproduced period photographs are here in generous quantity, even if emphasizing the classics, as are photos of the memorial (by Richard Latoff). The war production of the Ford Motor Company (a sponsor of the volume and the TV special) gets significant space. The foreword by John S.D. Eisenhower states that for the U.S., the "impact of WWII lies chiefly on the effect it had on the Americans who lived through the period, especially those who participated, and the impact it had on American society." It does not mention the impact of the 405,399 U.S. deaths during the war, also commemorated by the memorial. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. Library JournalA companion volume to the PBS documentary The World War II Memorial: A Testament to Freedom, this is an excellent addition to the literature, as its central theme is the memorial itself, recently dedicated in Washington, DC. The book begins with an account of the memorial, explaining its main elements and how it was conceived and built, and also offers comments from the designer and sculptor. The book then tells the story of the war as reflected in the memorial, with such chapters as "Victory at Sea" and "Victory in Europe," including women at war and the home front. Each chapter is written by a noted historian or author, e.g., Thomas Childers, Carlo D’Este, and Emily Yellin. The profusely illustrated text is nicely side-barred with interviews with veterans or civilians both well known and unknown, including Robert Dole, Daniel Inouye, Yogi Berra, and Margie Munn, a drill press operator. Highly recommended. David Lee Poremba, Detroit P.L. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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Washington, D.C.: A Photographic Tour
 Carol M. Highsmith (Photographer)
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Carved out of some of the thickest woods and foulest swamps at the close of the eighteenth century, the glorious city of Washington D.C. is among America’s most stately, most beautiful, and most impressive. Spanning the Potomac in majestic fashion, the city fans out gracefully, offering a multitude of pleasures to the more than twenty million tourists who visit annually. These pages explore official Washington: the imposing Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, the White House, the Capitol, and the soaring obelisk of the Washington Monument; along with its lush public parks and gardens, beautiful buildings, and historic sites. From the charm of its celebrated Cherry Blossom Festival to the somber beauty of the Vietnam Wall, Washington, D.C.: A Photographic Tour captures this historic city memorably and is an evocative portrait of the grandeur of the nation’s capital.
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Lincoln Memorial Cents 1959-1998
 Littleton Coin Company
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With Malice toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
 Stephen B. Oates
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A masterful biography of Lincoln that follows his bitter struggle with poverty, his self-made success in business and law, his early disappointing political career, and his leadership as President during one of America’s most tumultuous periods.Author Biography: Stephen B. Oates is the author of sixteen books, including The Approaching Fury; With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln and Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr., the latter two books winning, respectively, the Christopher Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award. They have been translated into several languages.Oates was a consultant and "talking head" in Ken Burns’s Civil War series on PBS, and is a recipient of the Nevins-Freeman Award of the Chicago Civil War Round Table for lifetime achievement in the field of Civil War studies. A teacher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, he is now writing the concluding book of the Voices of Storm trilogy, about the years of Reconstruction, 1865-1877.
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Los Angeles TimesHere, in these pages, he is still alive....Not the god of the Lincoln Memorial, but a man struggling to remain himself under terrible burdens.
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Fodor’s Washington D. C.
 Fodor’s Travel Publications
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Rising majestically over the city skyline- the Washington Monument, the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, the White House and the Capitol - are awe inspiring. Whether you are watching Congressional staff rush around Capitol Hill or you are strolling on the Mall as moonlight washes over the monuments - Washington D.C will leave you inspired! Before leaving on your journey to Washington D.C, be sure to pack your Fodor’s guide to ensure you don’t miss a thing!The San Francisco Chronicle sums it up best: "Fodor’s Gold Guides are saturated with information."- New two-color interiors make it easier to find the information you need.- Fodor’s Choice ratings tell what not to miss.- Hotel and restaurant reviews cover all budgets.- New ¢ sign category flags the best budget options.- Multi-day itineraries help readers build the right trip for them.- Smart Travel Tips, a complete chapter packed with contacts and great advice.
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Washington, D.C.: A Photographic Celebration
 Designed by Frances J. Soo Ping Chow
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Take a stroll on Capitol Hill, an elevator to the top of the Washington Monument, or a ferry across the Potomac in this fully illustrated photographic tour of our nation’s capital. Visit such national treasures as the Lincoln Memorial, Embassy Row, and the White House. More than 100 photographs are accompanied by quotations, captions, and anecdotes from some of America’s most notable statesmen.
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Washington Schlepped Here: Walking In The Nation’s Capital (Crown Journey Series)
 Christopher Buckley
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The father of our country slept with Martha, but schlepped in the District. Now in the great man’s footsteps comes humorist and twenty-year Washington resident Christopher Buckley with the real story of the city’s founding. Well, not really. We’re just trying to get you to buy the book. But we can say with justification that there’s never been a more enjoyable, funny, and informative tour guide to the city than Buckley. His delight as he points out things of interest is contagious, and his frequent digressions about his own adventures as a White House staffer are often hilarious. In Washington Schlepped Here, Buckley takes us along for several walks around the town and shares with us a bit of his "other" Washington. They include "Dante’s Paradiso" (Union Station); the "Zero Milestone of American democracy" (the U.S. Capitol); the "Almost Pink House" (the White House); and many other historical (and often hysterical) journeys. Buckley is the sort of wonderful guide who pries loose the abalone-like clichandeacutes that cling to a place as mythic as D.C. Wonderfully insightful and eminently practical, Washington Schlepped Here shows us that even a city whose chief industry is government bureaucracy is a lot funnier and more surprising than its media-ready image might let on.
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Casting off the clichandeacute; of a serious city obsessed with bureaucracy, this collection of Washington, D.C., walking tours is an enjoyable read for patriots, historians, and tourists alike. Longtime Washingtonian and political satirist Christopher Buckley explores the colorful history behind such landmarks as the great memorials to Lincoln, Washington, and Grant, and exposes little-known tidbits, such as the reason one president stripped Air Force One of its wallpaper and carpet. Four separate walks include hilarious anecdotes, historical facts -- some of which must be taken with a grain of salt -- and directions, making this slim volume an ideal companion for your next visit.
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The New York TimesThis is the guidebook as after-dinner conversation with an insider, rich and gossipy, witty and a bit knowing. It animates a city that all too often just looks like a blur of grass, cops, flowering cherries and marble facades. andmdash; Michael PyeThe Washington PostWashington Schlepped Here is the latest entry in the Crown Journeys series, which sends authors on foot pilgrimages through cherished landscapes. In clumsy hands, this could be a recipe for pseudo-Wordsworthian tone poems, but Buckley’s dapper palette -- not quite nourishing enough for the novel form -- turns out to be just right for the casual literary excursus. His take on the nation’s capital is blessedly short but still crammed with stuff that maybe you once knew (the Air and Space Museum stands on the site of a former whorehouse) and stuff that, come to think of it, you never knew (the hands of the Lincoln Memorial statue spell out Lincoln’s initials in sign language). andmdash; Louis BayardThe Chicago Sun-TimesWashington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation’s Capital is not the sort of thing you get from a bored tourist bus driver reciting the same old facts for the umpteenth time. Buckley, the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley and an old Washington political creature himself, is a splendid traveling humorist in the Mark Twain mold, far closer to Bill Bryson than Paul Theroux. andmdash; Henry KisorPublishers WeeklyBuckley (No Way to Treat a First Lady) presents an engaging introduction to the highlights of monumental Washington in this collection of walking tours. While some readers might have appreciated a stroll through some of the capital’s less-visited quarters (his tours barely venture beyond the Mall), Buckley digs up enough historical tidbits about even greatest hits stops like the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and Washington Monument to let veteran tourists see them freshly. His approach-combining the stories of those who built Washington and the stories of those who ruled it-pays off in rich anecdotes about, for instance, Pierre L’Enfant, the city’s designer, who died in poverty, and James McNeill Whistler, who created the Freer Gallery’s Peacock Room in a defiant act of artistic license. It’s useful, too, to have a guide who’s a former Washington insider (Buckley worked as a speechwriter to Vice-president Bush during Reagan’s first term) and actually knows what it’s like to steal stationery from Air Force One. Buckley’s tendency to let jokes tell the stories is occasionally confusing: for instance, he writes, "Congress immediately passed a law prohibiting vice-presidents from speaking in verse; it remains on the books today." If he’s not kidding he should elaborate, and if he is, well, he should be funnier. This isn’t a critical guide to Washington-Buckley wears his conservative and patriotic credentials on his sleeve-and it is unlikely to appeal to anyone looking for insight into the Washington its residents actually inhabit, but its anecdotes, alternately frivolous and solemn, make a good companion to D.C.’s best-known attractions. Agent, Amanda Urban. (Apr.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Library JournalBuckley, son of the famous conservative William F. Buckley Jr., a former speechwriter for Vice President Bush, and now a satirical novelist (No Way To Treat a First Lady), was asked by the publisher to write a walking tour guide of Washington as part of their series "Crown Journeys," which also includes such titles as William Murray’s City of the Soul: A Walk in Rome and Edwidge Danticat’s After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Haiti. Intermingling interesting facts with witty and not so witty comments (e.g. "where the Federal Triangle of government offices sits or squats or whatever it is a federal triangle does"), he takes the reader on four walks through DC’s most familiar sites: the Washington Monument, Smithsonian, Lincoln Memorial, and Arlington Cemetery. Apart from discussing the historical, he also shares his own experiences in the Reagan administration. Overall, this is an enjoyable and quick read, but it should have been published in paperback. The book’s small size is a drawback for libraries: at 5"x 7 5-8" inches and merely 160 pages, it may easily get lost on shelves. Recommended as an alternative supplement to standard travel guides to Washington and for those libraries experiencing a high demand for the author’s other works.-John McCormick, New Hampshire State Lib., Concord Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Read all 6 "From The Critics" andgt;
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The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
 Drew D. Hansen
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"Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King’s prophetic utterances started the long overdue process of changing America’s idea of itself. His words would enter the American lexicon, galvanizing the civil rights movement, becoming a touchstone for all that the country might someday achieve." "The Dream is the first book about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legendary "I Have a Dream" speech. Opening with an enthralling account of the August day in 1963 that saw 250,000 Americans converge at the March on Washington, The Dream delves into the fascinating and little-known history of King’s speech. Hansen explores King’s compositional strategies and techniques, and proceeds to a brilliant analysis of the "I Have a Dream" speech itself, examining it on various levels: as a political treatise, a work of poetry, and as a masterfully delivered and improvised sermon bursting with biblical language and imagery." In tracing the legacy of "I Have a Dream" since 1963, The Dream insightfully considers how King’s incomparable speech "has slowly remade the American imagination," and led us closer to King’s visionary goal of a redeemed America.
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The Washington PostDrew D. Hansen traces the speech’s path to immortality in The Dream, a swift-moving and plainly written examination of King’s speech, the events leading to its composition, and ways in which Americans’ assessment of it changed in the decades that have followed. — Jabari Asim Publishers WeeklyHansen wasn’t yet born on August 28, 1963, when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his momentous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, at the first mass march on Washington of the modern Civil Rights movement. Decades later, Hansen studied the Civil Rights movement and the Constitution at Yale law school and found he kept coming back to King’s speech, continually impressed by how large its message looms in 20th-century American history. King’s words, Hansen claims, proved to be a keystone for understanding the social and political upheaval of those times: "He gave the nation a vocabulary to express what was happening." Hansen begins this debut by recounting the weeks leading up to the march - the strain in the streets, the apprehension of authorities and the mood of King and his inner circle. King, who delivered sermons and speeches almost daily, knew that this would be the biggest address of his career, and he prepared carefully. For inspiration he read the Bible, the Gettysburg Address and the Declaration of Independence (the speech alludes to all three). The core of the book is Hansen’s studious line-by-line analysis of the speech itself-King’s choice of words and phrases, his intonation, his allusions, his targets. In the end, Hansen maintains, the speech is timeless because it goes right to the core of democratic principles, and as such can be held up as inspiration for the disenfranchised across cultures. Try as he might to employ a loose, personal narrative, The Dream sometimes reads a bit didactically, but it is serious, scholarly and engaged, a fitting contribution to the 40th anniversary of the speech and the march. (July 11) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Library JournalIn this extended essay in meaning, Rhodes Scholar Hansen uses an explication of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech at the massive August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to re-examine 50 years of civil rights struggle in America. He focuses on the speech’s composition and compares its text as prepared and as delivered to mark its prophecy. Received slowly from 1963 to King’s assassination in 1968, the meaning of King’s dream of redeeming America has faded in the speech’s misuse and over-quotation and needs to be recovered, Hansen argues. Others have treated King as leader and preacher and assayed his rhetoric and impact, but Hansen scores a signal triumph with a sharply focused exegesis that re-exposes America’s soul to the moral of one of its most famous speeches. Commemorating the 40th anniversary of this speech, Hansen’s book is recommended for public and academic libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 3-15-03.]-Thomas J. Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Kirkus ReviewsA fan’s notes on the speech that garnered wide acceptance largely through MLK’s vision of what America could become, rather than a condemnation of what it was. A Rhodes scholar in theology, Hansen, born the year after that 1963 event in Washington, D.C., first revisits the 1960s, with snapshots of the burgeoning civil-rights landscape. In three southern states, for example, no black child attended an integrated school; in the 100 counties of the South with the highest ratio of African-American population, fewer than nine percent of nonwhites were registered to vote. (King’s principal objective was to denounce both Jim Crow laws in the South and the pernicious de facto segregation in the North.) Hansen then examines the most memorable of King’s thousands of speeches as a historical artifact: What is it that has sustained its remembrance? Were the thoughts and the language King’s alone? King took the podium at the end of the day, Hansen reminds, after many well-known civil-rights figures had spoken. He hadn’t had much national exposure until then, but a few minutes standing before the Lincoln Memorial changed all that, vaulting him into the national spotlight and forefront of black leadership. In closely analyzing the text of the speech, the author compares supporting drafts of two associates and King’s own final written version with the actual spoken words. There’s no doubt that King’s extensive departures from prepared text formed the most eloquent and inspiring moments. Further probing suggests how lifelong immersion in the language of the King James Bible may have melded with King’s unabashed borrowing of like-minded activists’ utterances to provide grist for "the dream." Studiedanatomy of one bold moment of extemporaneous triumph.
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Lincoln Memorial Cent 1959 - 1998 Coin Folder
 H.E. Harris and Co. Staff
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Discusses where and how to obtain stamps; tools, accessories, catalogues, and albums; identification of stamps; and the history of stamps. Includes a dictionary of terms.
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God Bless America
 Irving Berlin
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A family of bears experiences America in an illustrated version of the classic song.
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Phillip Keveren’s lyrical and patriotic arrangement of Irving Berlin’s classic specifically arranged for intermediate-level piano students.
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The Barnes and Noble ReviewWarm up your vocal cords and lift your head high! Acclaimed artist Lynn Munsinger has created a moving tribute to Irving Berlin’s patriotic musical standard and packaged it with a heartwarming CD featuring Barbra Streisand’s rendition of the song. Set to the famous lyrics, God Bless America takes us on a spectacular journey through the U.S. with an adorable family of bears. Papa drives his young son and daughter through the lush countryside to attend a parade that includes police officers and fire fighters. Then they visit the Lincoln Memorial and stop to view the majestic New York City skyline. Bringing to life the song’s stirring words, the bears set up camp in awe-inspiring mountains, frolic in prairie grasslands, and spend time at the ocean andquot;white with foam,andquot; finally returning to andquot;home sweet home,andquot; where Mom waits with big hugs. With tender illustrations perfectly capturing the American landscape, Munsinger delivers a book just right for American celebrations. The bonus CD is truly moving, and the book even features the musical score in the back. More than a stunning homage, this book deserves special praise because a portion of the proceeds from its sale goes to the God Bless America Fund. (Matt Warner)
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Publishers WeeklyIn another song-lyrics-turned picture book-text, God Bless America by Irving Berlin, illus. by Lynn Munsinger, comes packaged with a CD, with the tune sung by none other than Barbra Streisand. Munsinger keeps the focus on Manhattan in an opening scene as well as with a parade of police officers and fire fighters, but she also adds cherry blossoms to a scene of the Lincoln Memorial at the capital, and of course the mountains, prairies and oceans (white with foam). (June) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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Spectacular Washington
 Von Hardesty
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Rising from the banks of the Potomac River, Washington, D. C., has become a sprawling metropolis, including historic sites, museums, and monuments that bring the true history of our diverse nation to the forefront. Spectacular Washington’s large format provides a captivating view of the nation’s capital. The book celebrates such classic buildings and destinations as Georgetown University and Ford’s Theatre, the exquisite Kennedy Center and the Lincoln Memorial, as well as the intriguing and essential Holocaust Museum and Vietnam Memorial. From the rich collections of the National Gallery Archives to the sweet splendor of the cherry tree blossoms in spring, this book unlocks the door to some of the city’s finest monuments, museums, gardens, parks, and memorials. The accompanying text further explores the district’s distinctive history, and the book includes 36 pages of foldout panoramas the size of a 19-inch television as well as more than 200 stunning photographs of the city’s celebrated and hidden treasures.
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Lincoln Memorial
 Kristin L. Nelson
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Describes the significance, history, and construction of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Washington, D. C.
 Tanya Lloyd Kyi
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Tradition meets modernism in the grand city of Washington, D.C. See the Capitol Building, the White House, and the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials-tributes to the third and sixteenth presidents. Or take a break from government to visit the National Zoo, Georgetown University, and many other famous spots.
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Dream: Martin Luther King, JR. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
 Drew D. Hansen
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"Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King’s prophetic utterances started the long overdue process of changing America’s idea of itself. His words would enter the American lexicon, galvanizing the civil rights movement, becoming a touchstone for all that the country might someday achieve." "The Dream is the first book about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legendary "I Have a Dream" speech. Opening with an enthralling account of the August day in 1963 that saw 250,000 Americans converge at the March on Washington, The Dream delves into the fascinating and little-known history of King’s speech. Hansen explores King’s compositional strategies and techniques, and proceeds to a brilliant analysis of the "I Have a Dream" speech itself, examining it on various levels: as a political treatise, a work of poetry, and as a masterfully delivered and improvised sermon bursting with biblical language and imagery." In tracing the legacy of "I Have a Dream" since 1963, The Dream insightfully considers how King’s incomparable speech "has slowly remade the American imagination," and led us closer to King’s visionary goal of a redeemed America.
From The Critics:
The Washington PostDrew D. Hansen traces the speech’s path to immortality in The Dream, a swift-moving and plainly written examination of King’s speech, the events leading to its composition, and ways in which Americans’ assessment of it changed in the decades that have followed. — Jabari Asim Publishers WeeklyHansen wasn’t yet born on August 28, 1963, when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his momentous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, at the first mass march on Washington of the modern Civil Rights movement. Decades later, Hansen studied the Civil Rights movement and the Constitution at Yale law school and found he kept coming back to King’s speech, continually impressed by how large its message looms in 20th-century American history. King’s words, Hansen claims, proved to be a keystone for understanding the social and political upheaval of those times: "He gave the nation a vocabulary to express what was happening." Hansen begins this debut by recounting the weeks leading up to the march - the strain in the streets, the apprehension of authorities and the mood of King and his inner circle. King, who delivered sermons and speeches almost daily, knew that this would be the biggest address of his career, and he prepared carefully. For inspiration he read the Bible, the Gettysburg Address and the Declaration of Independence (the speech alludes to all three). The core of the book is Hansen’s studious line-by-line analysis of the speech itself-King’s choice of words and phrases, his intonation, his allusions, his targets. In the end, Hansen maintains, the speech is timeless because it goes right to the core of democratic principles, and as such can be held up as inspiration for the disenfranchised across cultures. Try as he might to employ a loose, personal narrative, The Dream sometimes reads a bit didactically, but it is serious, scholarly and engaged, a fitting contribution to the 40th anniversary of the speech and the march. (July 11) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Library JournalIn this extended essay in meaning, Rhodes Scholar Hansen uses an explication of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech at the massive August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to re-examine 50 years of civil rights struggle in America. He focuses on the speech’s composition and compares its text as prepared and as delivered to mark its prophecy. Received slowly from 1963 to King’s assassination in 1968, the meaning of King’s dream of redeeming America has faded in the speech’s misuse and over-quotation and needs to be recovered, Hansen argues. Others have treated King as leader and preacher and assayed his rhetoric and impact, but Hansen scores a signal triumph with a sharply focused exegesis that re-exposes America’s soul to the moral of one of its most famous speeches. Commemorating the 40th anniversary of this speech, Hansen’s book is recommended for public and academic libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 3-15-03.]-Thomas J. Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Kirkus ReviewsA fan’s notes on the speech that garnered wide acceptance largely through MLK’s vision of what America could become, rather than a condemnation of what it was. A Rhodes scholar in theology, Hansen, born the year after that 1963 event in Washington, D.C., first revisits the 1960s, with snapshots of the burgeoning civil-rights landscape. In three southern states, for example, no black child attended an integrated school; in the 100 counties of the South with the highest ratio of African-American population, fewer than nine percent of nonwhites were registered to vote. (King’s principal objective was to denounce both Jim Crow laws in the South and the pernicious de facto segregation in the North.) Hansen then examines the most memorable of King’s thousands of speeches as a historical artifact: What is it that has sustained its remembrance? Were the thoughts and the language King’s alone? King took the podium at the end of the day, Hansen reminds, after many well-known civil-rights figures had spoken. He hadn’t had much national exposure until then, but a few minutes standing before the Lincoln Memorial changed all that, vaulting him into the national spotlight and forefront of black leadership. In closely analyzing the text of the speech, the author compares supporting drafts of two associates and King’s own final written version with the actual spoken words. There’s no doubt that King’s extensive departures from prepared text formed the most eloquent and inspiring moments. Further probing suggests how lifelong immersion in the language of the King James Bible may have melded with King’s unabashed borrowing of like-minded activists’ utterances to provide grist for "the dream." Studiedanatomy of one bold moment of extemporaneous triumph.
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My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography
 Marian Anderson
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"My Lord, What a Morning is a memoir, abounding with the tender and inspiring stories of Marian Anderson’s life in her own modest words. From her humble but proud beginnings in south Philadelphia to international vocal renown, the legendary contralto writes of triumph and adversity, of being grounded in faith and surrounded by family, and of the music that shaped her career." "Anderson published My Lord, What a Morning in 1956 on the heels of her groundbreaking role as the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera. Here are the stories of a young girl with prodigious talent, and her warm remembrances of the teachers, managers, friends, accompanists, and fans who worked to foster it. Here is a veritable travelogue of her concerts across the globe and rare glimpses at the personal life of a woman more concerned with family than celebrity." "An entire chapter devoted to the Easter concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 reveals Anderson’s immense respect for Eleanor Roosevelt, who resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution when they refused to let Anderson perform at Constituion Hall. Supplanting sorrow and regret for anger and violence, Anderson demurely imparts her views on discrimination and on becoming an icon in the struggle for civil rights." With eleven photographs and a touching new foreword by Anderson’s nephew, famed conductor and poet James DePriest, this new paperback edition of My Lord, What a Morning revives the classic portrait of a musical legend who was resilient in the bullying face of bigotry and gracious in the unfaltering glow of fame.
From The Critics:
Booknews**** Reprint of the Viking Press edition of 1956 (which is cited in BCL3) with a new introduction, but still no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Lincoln Memorial
 Deborah Kent
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The United States has many national monuments, each with its own significance. Why did Mauldin select the Lincoln Memorial to carry his wordless message?
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School Library JournalGr 3-5When the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, granting the right to vote without regard to sex, women all over the world cheered. It was a long road filled with many battles fought by individuals of strong character, great courage, and an eye to the future of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was not honored with a completed memorial until 1922 after much controversy and discussion about the location and design of the monument. Both events are detailed in these two books. As in other titles in the series, an enormous amount of complex history is broken down into highly readable and accurate text enhanced by excellent black-and-while and full-color photographs and reproductions. Valuable resources.Pamela K. Bomboy, Chesterfield County Public Schools, VA
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Optimum Health: A Cardiologist’s Prescription
 Stephen T. Sinatra
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What does it take to achieve Optimum Health? Dr. Steve Sinatra, Chief of Cardiology and Director of Medical Education at Manchester Memorial Hospital in Manchester, Connecticut, has created this research-based, yet practical health reference for health professionals and their patients. For most people, life can be better than it presently is. Cardiologist Steve Sinatra’s exciting new book shows you how you can improve your health and enjoy life more. Optimum Health will provide you with some clear guidelines about vitamins, minerals, nutritionals, fat, fiber and cholesterol. You will also learn valuable concepts about exercise, healing foods and the very latest information about physical and spiritual anti-aging strategies. And, importantly, Sinatra shows a definite connection between weight management, love and sexuality. Dr. Sinatra provides plenty of practical, research-based information in this handy health reference that you’ll turn to again and again. For example, Sinatra raises and answers the questions, "Why do some people get sick and others don’t?" According to Sinatra, "A diet rich in foods and nutrients that heal may well be our best line of defense against the country’s environmental and degenerative killers, such as cancer, heart disease and autoimmune disorders." In an age where our bodies are ravaged by the effects of environmental toxins, stress, cancer-causing chemicals and aging, Optimum Health provides you with a powerful resource to fight back.
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Portraits of the Nation Notecards: Selected Treasures from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
 Sky Press Bright
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From presidents to poets, military men to modern dancers, abolitionists to artists: taken together, these paintings and photographs from the famed Smithsonian Portrait Gallery reveal the depth of America’s greatness and diversity. Some of the figures changed the world through politics, others through inventions. Still more were simply blessed with unforgettable talent that brought joy to our hearts.Here is the father of our nation, George Washington, in Gilbert Stuart’s Landsdowne portrait. Opera singer Marian Anderson, captured by Betsy Graves Reynau, stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial, where she made civil rights history with her 1939 concert. Thomas Alva Edison sits proudly in front of his new creation: a phonograph. The Indian princess Pocahontas appears in courtly European dress after her marriage to an Englishman. Among the many others are defenders of freedom Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass; Sequoyah; aviatrix Amelia Earhart, whose disappearance haunts us still; Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Jefferson; George Gershwin; Martin Luther King; Josephine Baker; painter Mary Cassatt, in a self-portrait; the young Bob Dylan; George S. Patton, and more! Keep patriotism with you always in a beautiful address book—or in a limited series of 15 assorted notecards with envelopes that will surely be treasured by whoever receives them. 5 1-8 X 6 7-8. 15 assorted notecards with envelopes
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"We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age
 Mark Robert Schneider
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Throughout the 1920s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) waged a series of dramatic battles that laid the foundation for civil rights advances in the 1950s and 1960s. Yet these crucial struggles are traditionally overlooked by scholars who focus instead on other dynamic movements of the period, namely Marcus Garvey’s United Negro Improvement Association and the Harlem Renaissance.In "We Return Fighting," Mark Robert Schneider restores to history the significant contributions and pioneering efforts of the leaders and rank-and-file in the NAACP during the Jazz Age. He tells the complex and multi-layered story of courageous campaigns for voting rights and equal education, against segregation and lynching, that were fought in the streets, courts, press, meeting halls, city offices, state legislatures, and Washington lobbies. Schneider’s engrossing account vividly portrays the NAACP’s black leadership team of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and W.E.B. Du Bois, the heroic leaders of over 300 local branches in rural and industrial communities scattered across the nation, and the thousands of working-class members who labored tirelessly to keep the civil rights movement alive. This is a powerful tale of extraordinary individuals who often risked their lives in an unwavering struggle to protect their constitutional rights in Jim Crow America. It is filled with dramatic, poignant, and at times chilling stories of lynchings, murders, rapes, gun battles, mobs, and courtroom confrontations. "We Return Fighting" deepens one’s understanding of race relations in this country and illuminates a neglected yet vital time in American history and the history of the NAACP. Author Biography: Mark Robert Schneider received his Ph.D. in history from Boston College and is an Adjunct Instructor in American History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920. He lives in the Boston area.
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Sword and Olive Branch: Oliver Otis Howard
 John A. Carpenter
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Oliver Otis Howard devoted his life to the service of his country, both as a distinguished army officer in two wars and as the founder of two universities. Oliver Otis Howard was a graduate of Bowdoin College and of West Point. Being reared in a pious New England (Maine) atmosphere gave him a deep sense of obligation to lead a Christian life, for the good of others and for the development of his own best self. He was often disturbed by the conflict presented him in his dual career in peace and war.General Howard’s strong sense of duty to his country brought about his distinguished career of command during the Civil War-at the Battle of Chancellorsville, itself a disappointing rout, and at Gettysburg, where he recovered any reputation the earlier defeat might have lost him. Under General Sherman, in the Atlanta campaign, and as a leader of the Army of the Tennessee he won special distinction. In total, Howard fought at the First Bull Run, Fair Oaks (where severe wounds forced the amputation of his right arm), Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.The same strong sense of duty made him accept the commission of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the promotion of African-American education. Following his service in the Nez Perce Campaign of 1877 he was superintendent of West Point and the founder of Lincoln Memorial University. His greatest service to education, however, was as founder and president of Howard University, where his name and career are held in honor.
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BooknewsCarpenter (1921-78) made Howard (1830-1909) the subject of his dissertation and of this full-length biography, first published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1964. Howard, a general in the US Army, took part in some of the most important battles of the Civil War, including Gettysburg, Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. After the war he promoted African-American education and founded two universities, of which Howard remains a major institution. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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The Lincoln Memorial and American Life
 Christopher A. Thomas
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"Honoring perhaps the most celebrated and important president in history, the Lincoln Memorial is one of our most recognized national shrines. It seems impossible to envision the Mall in Washington, D.C. or national pageantry without it - yet the Lincoln Memorial was almost not built. From the project’s inception, the memorial - a modified Greek temple designed by architect Henry Bacon - gave rise to charged cultural and aesthetic debate, including arguments about Modernism and Americanism. Christopher Thomas offers the first detailed analysis of Bacon’s design and the memorial as a system, including the statue of Lincoln by Daniel Chester French. Using extensive archival data, Thomas discusses just why the memorial looks as it does." "Because the idea of a memorial to Lincoln raised questions of race, the legacy of the Civil War, and lingering sectional animosities, the project sparked political debate between the legislative and executive branches of government and between political parties. Thomas traces the long and controversial path of the project, ranging from the immediate aftermath of the Civil War through the Progressive era, with its mix of novelty, racism, and imperialism. As he concentrates on the memorial’s background, design, construction, reception, and uses - including the many public demonstrations for civil rights and justice that have taken place there - Thomas shows that the Lincoln Memorial is not a neutral symbol of America at all but a partisan and racially coded object, susceptible to appropriation and re-appropriation." A valuable contribution to American studies, this book combines architecture and art history with American history and politics. It will appeal to scholars in these fields and to any general reader with an interest in Lincoln, the early twentieth century, and the monuments of our nation’s capital.
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Library JournalThomas’s lucid, revealing, and amply illustrated book gives a full-bodied life history of the Lincoln Memorial, with an eye to the ways various political, social, architectural, and artistic interests claimed and used the memorial to push their own ideas about nation, race, aesthetics, and social justice. Thomas (history of art, Univ. of Victoria, British Columbia) looks at the whole of the memorial, including the inscribed tablets, murals, building, and even landscape and location on the Mall, to show how and why the memorial came to dominate the public imagination. In the process of conceiving and then building the project, as Thomas argues, the memorialized Lincoln moved from being the symbol of sectional reconciliation, to aggressive statesman in the Theodore Roosevelt mold, to emancipator and more. By the 1960s, the memorial had become the symbol for civil rights and human justice that went beyond party or any one person. Thomas devotes considerable attention to issues of design and appearance, all to good effect, in showing how "beauty" informed belief. The result is a book that gives life and meaning to the great marbled temple on the Mall and reminds us how contested "memory" was and can be. Highly recommended for all libraries. Randall M. Miller, Saint Joseph’s Univ., Philadelphia Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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The Lincoln Memorial (American Symbols Series)
 Terri DeGezelle
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A simple introduction to the Lincoln Memorial, including its history, designer, construction, location, and importance as a symbol of the United States.
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In 1867, Congress started to plan a memorial to honor Abraham Lincoln. Did you know that this monument was not finished until 1922? Explore this great American symbol of freedom and unity, and discover the early history of a young nation.
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Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory
 Barry Schwartz
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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. Drawing on a wide array of materials—painting and sculpture, popular magazines and school textbooks, newspaper accounts and oratory—Barry Schwartz aims at this sort of contradiction in his study of the role Lincoln’s reputation and memory has played in American life. Schwartz explains, for example, how dramatic funeral rites elevated Lincoln’s reputation even while funeral eulogists questioned his presidential actions, and how his reputation, over the next four decades, diminished and grew. Schwartz links the vagaries of Lincoln’s image to broad transformations of the nation, arguing that Lincoln’s life symbolized America’s development from a rural republic to an industrial democracy and articulated the roles of economic and political reform, military power, and nationalism in the country’s self-conception. Lincoln’s memory assumed a double aspect of "mirror" and "lamp," acting 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. The first 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, but around a real person whose character and achievements symbolized his country’s ideals.
From The Critics:
Publishers WeeklyThere have been many studies of Lincoln’s life and how it has come to be perceived in the minds of Americans, the best being Merrill Peterson’s Abraham Lincoln in American Memory (1994). Schwartz’s scholarly account manages only to be a workman-like job of surveying the power of Lincoln’s image since 1865. Unlike Peterson’s user-friendly book, Schwartz’s volume appears to have been written with an academic readership in mind: a scholarly dryness permeates the prose. Nevertheless, Schwartz, a professor of sociology at the University of Georgia, hits all the important points on his way to a larger argument about memory and history. He contends that the common view of Lincoln changed over time alongside changes in national interests and priorities. In the Progressive era, for example, Lincoln was lauded as a common man who rose to the White House despite all obstacles; during the mid-20th-century civil rights struggle, on the other hand, he was known as the Great Emancipator. Lincoln buffs might protest that Schwartz then uses up too much space talking about the sociology of collective memory as represented in the work of scholars like Charles Horton Cooley and Emile Durkheim--but they’d be missing the point. Ultimately, this is not a book about Lincoln as a man or a symbol. It’s a study that uses the American commemoration of Lincoln as a vehicle for studying the whims and whiles of national memory. As such, it is a success. (July) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.| Library JournalIn this work, Schwartz (sociology, Univ. of Georgia; George Washington: The Making of an American Symbol) examines the endless American fascination with Lincoln. This first installment of a projected two-part study chronicles the Great Emancipator’s ever-changing image, from his 1865 assassination to the May 30, 1922, dedication day of his national monument in Washington, DC. The author charts the commemoration of Lincoln’s life through analysis of eulogies and other hagiographies, monuments, shrines, statues, state portraits, historical paintings, prints, and centennial, sesquicentennial, and annual birthday observances. During the industrial and social revolutions of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, the rich complexities of Lincoln’s life served as a unifying beacon to immigrants, Socialists, economic and social conservatives, African Americans, and even white Southerners. Following World War I, Lincoln assumed the mantle of "epic imagery." Schwartz puts it best in this final sentence of this profound study: "Lincoln...became America’s universal man standing beside the people and above the people." Although this highly provocative book is a major contribution to American social and intellectual history, its concentrated academic approach may have little appeal to general readers. Recommended for large public libraries and academic libraries.--John Carver Edwards, Univ. of Georgia Libs., Athens Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.- Kirkus ReviewsAn engaging scholarly study of the dynamic links between Lincoln’s image and the rapidly changing American culture during the six decades after his assassination. Sociologist Schwartz (George Washington, not reviewed) wants to test sociological theories with historical evidence and bring history back into his own discipline. Fortunately, he also knows how to tell a good story. One needn’t like sociology (which appears here only at the start and finish and is spread on lightly anyway) to learn much from his engrossing account of the sources of Lincoln’s changing reputation between 1865 and the 1920s. (A forthcoming second volume will bring the story up to date.) Schwartz’s approach differs from Merrill Peterson’s Lincoln in American Memory (1994), which focused on the contents of Lincoln’s image: Schwartz explores instead how public perception of Lincoln waxed and waned as it did (the 16th President was by no means universally admired during his lifetime). Drawing on a wide variety of sources (art and statuary, schoolbooks and speeches, and the efforts of andquot;reputational entrepreneursandquot;), Schwartz shows that Lincoln came to be revered as he was as much on account of the needs of particular historical moments and groups in the population as because of his own deeds and words. In other words, Americans constructed Lincoln’s image in their own. Such an argument will not surprise historians engaged in the scholarly industry of andquot;memory studies.andquot; But it reminds us of the complex interdependence of fact, memory, and culture. It also fills out our understanding of such specific phenomena as North-South reconciliation, military preparation, andracerelations through the Progressive Era. And true to its sociological foundations, it reveals how images grow more from need than reality, and how reputations are as likely to be imposed as achieved. Anyone who wishes to learn more of Lincoln, the nation he helped govern, and the way memory serves social and cultural functions will gain from this highly illuminating work. (bandw illustrations not seen)
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Capital Horse Country: A Rider’s and Spectator’s Guide
 Jackie C. Burke
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November: Lincoln’s Elegy at Gettysburg
 Kent Gramm
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"It begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battleground in American history and over the course of a month transforms his search into a discovery of the meaning of Lincoln’s elegy for America’s identity." For Gramm, the century that began with Lincoln’s address and ended with the assassinations of the 1960s saw the destruction of the "modern" world and with it America’s sense of purpose. The book reflects on the November anniversaries of public events such as the Armistice that ended World War I, Kristallnacht, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the death of C. S. Lewis, the first major battle of the Vietnam War, and the publication of Robert F. Kennedy’s To Seek a Newer World, and also on private events in Gramm’s family history. These provide the occasions for Gramm’s meditations on public and private heroism, on modernism’s hopes and postmodern despair. In November, he asks us to seek a path toward the "new birth of freedom" that Lincoln envisioned at Gettysburg.
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Let’s Go Map Guide Washington, D.C. (Let’s Go Map Guides Series)
 St Martin’s Press
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From the Lincoln Memorial to the Watergate Hotel, here are all the facts about the nation’s capital, with additional side trips to Virginia Beach, Charlottesville, Shenandoah National Park, and more. 24 bandw maps. of color maps.
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Lincoln Memorial
 Kristin L. Nelson
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Describes the significance, history, and construction of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mount Rushmore
 John Taliaferro
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"In Great White Fathers, author John Taliaferro chronicles the heroic struggle to shape the four faces of Rushmore, and then he shows us the warts, too. He reveals the astonishing backstory of America’s "Shrine to Democracy" - how the Black Hills were snatched from the Lakota Sioux; the grueling and perilous task of carving mammoth faces with dynamite and jackhammers while swinging from a five-hundred-foot cliff; the impact of auto tourism and crass commercialism on the land and lifestyles of the Great Plains." "Like so many episodes in the saga of the American West, what began as a personal dream had to be bailed out by the federal government, a compromise that nearly drove Gutzon Borglum over the brink. Nor in the end could Borglum control how his masterpiece would be received by future generations." Great White Fathers is at once the biography of a man and the biography of a place, told through travelogue, interviews, and investigation of the vast records left behind by one of America’s most eccentric, and emblematic, visionaries. It proves that the best American stories are not simple; they are complex and contradictory, at times humorous, at other times tragic.
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The Barnes and Noble Review from Discover Great New WritersIf ever there was a book that could make one long to visit an American landmark, this is it. John Taliaferro’s insightful account of the sculpting of Mount Rushmore is both a telling piece of art history and an enthralling analysis of the cultural, technological, and political forces that helped shape this singular monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The story begins in the mid-19th century, when the promise of gold sent prospectors rushing to the Great Plains, fueling bloody battles between U.S. Army and the Sioux. The irony that this American shrine was built on land wrested from Native Americans (in violation of government treaties) is not lost on Taliaferro. But when the end of World War I brought an economic slump to the region, politicians began wondering if they could boost the flagging economy through tourism. And the budding interstate highway system convinced them that with the right attraction, they could appeal to vacationers traveling by car. Gutzon Borglum, a talented but temperamental sculptor, was chosen to carve Mount Rushmore. Taliaferro tells how Borglum began the project in 1927, and his description of the efforts required to create the images of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt into the face of the mountain is breathtaking. The monument was still under construction at the time of Borglum’s death in 1941. Today, Mount Rushmore is considered alternately a symbol of democracy, a desecration of nature, and a tourist trap. But as Taliaferro aptly reveals in this captivating history, it is truly "a mirror of our culture" worth further examination. Winter 2002 Selection
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It takes a skilled writer and reporter to make an old, familiar story fresh, and in his book... Taliaferro excels. Boston Globe - 2002. Taliaferro’s description of how [Mount Rushmore] came to be makes for a surprisingly colorful and entertaining history lesson here and now. New York Times Book ReviewTaliaferro...tells a wide-ranging story...Briskly written, never dull, and it never bogs down. Forbes FYITaliaferro tells that story [of Rushmore’s construction] in clear, colorful terms...Taliaferro’s narrative sparkles whenever [Borglum] is in it. Publishers WeeklyOn page one of this history of Mt. Rushmore, Taliaferro proposes to answer "the questions that any archaeologist would ask": Who are the men represented, how were they chosen, how were they carved, by whom, who visits this shrine? In the end, this overly modest mission statement is the only false note in an impressive work. Like the outsized sculptures blasted out of a granite mountainside, this history, by a former Newsweek editor, is massive, descriptive yet never blandly representational and filled with characters as fully realized as the Mt. Rushmore busts. The central figure is Rushmore’s "father"-sculptor Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), a fascinating study in contradictions: a great talent, but a hopeless businessman; a patriot who was also a bigot; a family man who lied about his parentage and ditched his first, much older wife to marry a younger woman who could bear children. Taliaferro (Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs) also uses the story of a monument as a springboard from which to explore the tensions within the American dream: an empire built on slave labor and on land stolen from the Indians; reverence for the common man combined with an infatuation with larger-than-life heroes; a love of the landscape that often takes a backseat to the quest for profit. Like Borglum, Taliaferro set himself a Sisyphean task and has produced a work that is both inspiring and thought provoking. 8 pages of bandw photos not seen by PW. (Nov.) Read all 6 "From The Critics" andgt;
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Sword and Olive Branch (North’s Civil War Series): Oliver Otis Howard
 John A. Carpenter
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Oliver Otis Howard devoted his life to the service of his country, both as a distinguished army officer in two wars and as the founder of two universities. Oliver Otis Howard was a graduate of Bowdoin College and of West Point. Being reared in a pious New England (Maine) atmosphere gave him a deep sense of obligation to lead a Christian life, for the good of others and for the development of his own best self. He was often disturbed by the conflict presented him in his dual career in peace and war.General Howard’s strong sense of duty to his country brought about his distinguished career of command during the Civil War-at the Battle of Chancellorsville, itself a disappointing rout, and at Gettysburg, where he recovered any reputation the earlier defeat might have lost him. Under General Sherman, in the Atlanta campaign, and as a leader of the Army of the Tennessee he won special distinction. In total, Howard fought at the First Bull Run, Fair Oaks (where severe wounds forced the amputation of his right arm), Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.The same strong sense of duty made him accept the commission of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the promotion of African-American education. Following his service in the Nez Perce Campaign of 1877 he was superintendent of West Point and the founder of Lincoln Memorial University. His greatest service to education, however, was as founder and president of Howard University, where his name and career are held in honor.
From The Critics:
BooknewsCarpenter (1921-78) made Howard (1830-1909) the subject of his dissertation and of this full-length biography, first published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1964. Howard, a general in the US Army, took part in some of the most important battles of the Civil War, including Gettysburg, Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. After the war he promoted African-American education and founded two universities, of which Howard remains a major institution. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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The Lincoln Memorial (National Landmarks Series)
 Kathleen W. Deady
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Discusses the history of the Lincoln Memorial, its designer, construction of the monument, its location, and its importance to the people of the United States.
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Children’s Literature - Laura Hummel Built to honor President Abraham Lincoln, the memorial is an imposing marble structure located in Washington D.C. Since its completion in 1922, it has been a popular tourist spot, visited by 3,000,000 people annually. After Lincoln, the 16th president, was assassinated, Americans wanted a memorial. Years later, money was granted for this impressive building. Designed by Henry Bacon, it is in the style of the famous Greek Parthenon. Located at the west end of the Mall, the memorial is in line with the Capitol and the Washington Monument. A nineteen-foot tall seated statue of the president is the focal point of the main room. Excellent historical and color photographs, a glossary, timeline, and additional sources are included. As part of the "National Landmarks" series, the book gives many facts about the famous building. Simple text makes this an ideal source for young readers. 2002, Bridgestone Books-Capstone Press,
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America’s Top 10 National Monuments
 Tanya Lee Stone
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Provides information about ten famous national monuments: the White House, Washington Monument, Statue of Liberty, Mesa Verde National Park, Mount Rushmore, Cabrillo National Monument, Lincoln Memorial, George Washington Carver National Monument, Jefferson Memorial, and Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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Children’s Literature - Dia L. MichelsInteresting facts, maps, and beautiful color photographs make this a nice introductory reference book. Each of the monuments is shown in a large color photograph facing easy-to-read entries. Bulleted boxes offer highlights and fun facts about the monuments. The sites chosen for selection in this book include some Washington D.C. favorites as well as the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore and Mesa Verde National Park. Designed to stimulate further interest, this book includes a glossary, reading list, and a section on where to get online information. This book is part of a series of ten titles, including America’s Top 10 Rivers, Top 10 National Parks, and Top 10 Natural Wonders. School Library JournalGr 3-6Brief overviews of major U.S. sights of interest. Monuments includes George Washington Carver National Monument, Mesa Verde National Park, and the Cabrillo National Monument as well as various presidential memorials in Washington, DC. Each two-page spread features a full-page photograph with a small map inset and a few paragraphs that include history and description along with a fact box. A list of additional monuments and memorials and an Internet home page address for each featured entry are appended. National Parks and Rivers are similar in scope. The information in the back of each book makes these titles useful as resources for reports, and the texts are good for reading aloud as an introduction to a social studies unit or for pure learning pleasure. The colorful photographs will capture the interest of lower-ability readers. Unfortunately, there is no map of the U.S. to show the location of these areas in relation to the rest of the country. Nevertheless, they are useful additions.Stephani Hutchinson, Pioneer Elementary School, Sunnyside, WA
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Lay This Laurel: An Album on the Saint-Gaudens Memorial on Boston Common, Honoring Black and White Men Together, Who Served the Union Cause with Rober
 Richard Benson (Photographer)
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Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory
 Barry Schwartz
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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. Drawing on a wide array of materials—painting and sculpture, popular magazines and school textbooks, newspaper accounts and oratory—Barry Schwartz aims at this sort of contradiction in his study of the role Lincoln’s reputation and memory has played in American life. Schwartz explains, for example, how dramatic funeral rites elevated Lincoln’s reputation even while funeral eulogists questioned his presidential actions, and how his reputation, over the next four decades, diminished and grew. Schwartz links the vagaries of Lincoln’s image to broad transformations of the nation, arguing that Lincoln’s life symbolized America’s development from a rural republic to an industrial democracy and articulated the roles of economic and political reform, military power, and nationalism in the country’s self-conception. Lincoln’s memory assumed a double aspect of "mirror" and "lamp," acting 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. The first 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, but around a real person whose character and achievements symbolized his country’s ideals.
From The Critics:
Publishers WeeklyThere have been many studies of Lincoln’s life and how it has come to be perceived in the minds of Americans, the best being Merrill Peterson’s Abraham Lincoln in American Memory (1994). Schwartz’s scholarly account manages only to be a workman-like job of surveying the power of Lincoln’s image since 1865. Unlike Peterson’s user-friendly book, Schwartz’s volume appears to have been written with an academic readership in mind: a scholarly dryness permeates the prose. Nevertheless, Schwartz, a professor of sociology at the University of Georgia, hits all the important points on his way to a larger argument about memory and history. He contends that the common view of Lincoln changed over time alongside changes in national interests and priorities. In the Progressive era, for example, Lincoln was lauded as a common man who rose to the White House despite all obstacles; during the mid-20th-century civil rights struggle, on the other hand, he was known as the Great Emancipator. Lincoln buffs might protest that Schwartz then uses up too much space talking about the sociology of collective memory as represented in the work of scholars like Charles Horton Cooley and Emile Durkheim--but they’d be missing the point. Ultimately, this is not a book about Lincoln as a man or a symbol. It’s a study that uses the American commemoration of Lincoln as a vehicle for studying the whims and whiles of national memory. As such, it is a success. (July) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.| Library JournalIn this work, Schwartz (sociology, Univ. of Georgia; George Washington: The Making of an American Symbol) examines the endless American fascination with Lincoln. This first installment of a projected two-part study chronicles the Great Emancipator’s ever-changing image, from his 1865 assassination to the May 30, 1922, dedication day of his national monument in Washington, DC. The author charts the commemoration of Lincoln’s life through analysis of eulogies and other hagiographies, monuments, shrines, statues, state portraits, historical paintings, prints, and centennial, sesquicentennial, and annual birthday observances. During the industrial and social revolutions of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, the rich complexities of Lincoln’s life served as a unifying beacon to immigrants, Socialists, economic and social conservatives, African Americans, and even white Southerners. Following World War I, Lincoln assumed the mantle of "epic imagery." Schwartz puts it best in this final sentence of this profound study: "Lincoln...became America’s universal man standing beside the people and above the people." Although this highly provocative book is a major contribution to American social and intellectual history, its concentrated academic approach may have little appeal to general readers. Recommended for large public libraries and academic libraries.--John Carver Edwards, Univ. of Georgia Libs., Athens Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.- Kirkus ReviewsAn engaging scholarly study of the dynamic links between Lincoln’s image and the rapidly changing American culture during the six decades after his assassination. Sociologist Schwartz (George Washington, not reviewed) wants to test sociological theories with historical evidence and bring history back into his own discipline. Fortunately, he also knows how to tell a good story. One needn’t like sociology (which appears here only at the start and finish and is spread on lightly anyway) to learn much from his engrossing account of the sources of Lincoln’s changing reputation between 1865 and the 1920s. (A forthcoming second volume will bring the story up to date.) Schwartz’s approach differs from Merrill Peterson’s Lincoln in American Memory (1994), which focused on the contents of Lincoln’s image: Schwartz explores instead how public perception of Lincoln waxed and waned as it did (the 16th President was by no means universally admired during his lifetime). Drawing on a wide variety of sources (art and statuary, schoolbooks and speeches, and the efforts of andquot;reputational entrepreneursandquot;), Schwartz shows that Lincoln came to be revered as he was as much on account of the needs of particular historical moments and groups in the population as because of his own deeds and words. In other words, Americans constructed Lincoln’s image in their own. Such an argument will not surprise historians engaged in the scholarly industry of andquot;memory studies.andquot; But it reminds us of the complex interdependence of fact, memory, and culture. It also fills out our understanding of such specific phenomena as North-South reconciliation, military preparation, andracerelations through the Progressive Era. And true to its sociological foundations, it reveals how images grow more from need than reality, and how reputations are as likely to be imposed as achieved. Anyone who wishes to learn more of Lincoln, the nation he helped govern, and the way memory serves social and cultural functions will gain from this highly illuminating work. (bandw illustrations not seen)
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Lincoln Memorial
 Natalie Miller
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Provides a detailed history of the planning and construction of the national monument honoring Abraham Lincoln.
From the Publisher:
The United States has many national monuments, each with its own significance. Why did Mauldin select the Lincoln Memorial to carry his wordless message?
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School Library JournalGr 3-5When the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, granting the right to vote without regard to sex, women all over the world cheered. It was a long road filled with many battles fought by individuals of strong character, great courage, and an eye to the future of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was not honored with a completed memorial until 1922 after much controversy and discussion about the location and design of the monument. Both events are detailed in these two books. As in other titles in the series, an enormous amount of complex history is broken down into highly readable and accurate text enhanced by excellent black-and-while and full-color photographs and reproductions. Valuable resources.Pamela K. Bomboy, Chesterfield County Public Schools, VA
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Lincoln Memorial (Buddy Books All Aboard America Series)
 Julie Murray
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Discusses the construction, history, and current status of the Washington, D.C., monument to Abraham Lincoln and the freedom, equality, and justice he personified.
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The Lincoln Memorial (Let’s See)
 Marc Tyler Nobleman
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Discusses why, where, and how the famous monument to President Abraham Lincoln was built, as well as what this memorial means to our country.
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The Lincoln Memorial (Symbols of Freedom Series)
 Tristan Boyer Binns
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School Library JournalGr 1-2-These simply written titles offer information on national symbols’ significance and history. On each spread three to six lines of text address a single topic or idea. However, the information is scant and some of the concepts, especially in Liberty and Lincoln, may be difficult for youngsters to understand (e.g., "symbol of unity"). While the books have large print and unfamiliar words are in bold (and defined in the glossary), the vocabulary will definitely challenge those drawn to a "first" reader. A significant amount of each page is taken up by a large black-and-white or full-color photograph or reproduction; the quality of these illustrations varies. In two of the volumes, the lists for further reading only include books for older readers. Unless interest demands, most libraries can skip these slight titles.-Peg Glisson, Mendon Center Elementary School, Pittsford, NY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Lincoln Memorial: A Great President Remembered
 Frederic Gilmore
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Describes the history of the Lincoln Memorial, how it was built, and what it represents.
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Children’s LiteratureThis book opens with a dramatic black-and-white photograph of Lincoln being shot in the head, accompanied by text on how this happened. This is a good lead in to the topic of Gilmore’s book on how to the Lincoln Memorial came into being. The rest of the book deals with the selection of a memorial to honor President Lincoln. There were many aspects to consider such as who would design it, what materials would be used and where it would go. An interesting fact was the location chosen for it. The land was swampy and wet and workers had to build a platform and place dirt around the platform to form a mound. Also, a life mask of Lincoln had to be used to form a plaster mold of his face as well as his hands. In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a speech called "I Have a Dream" on the steps of the Memorial. Gilmore does a nice job of writing about a much visited Washington, D.C. sight.
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My Darling Elsie
 Blaine C. Collins
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The book, My Darling Elsie, is a biography of Dr. Blaine C. Collins and covers events occurring in the twentieth century. The biography starts in 1914, at which time primitive automobiles and airplanes were just coming into use. This was a time of transition from the Steel Age to the Electronic and Space Age with all the changes that affected the lives of everyone. Blaine Cecil Collins was born at Clever, Missouri, August 22, 1914. He moved to South Dakota when he was 18 months old and received his elementary education there, the first four years in a one-room, one-teacher, eight-grade country school. He graduated from high school in Lebanon, SD in 1934. He received pre-medical education at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee and graduated from the University of Tennessee, College of Medicine in 1942. He interned and had a surgical residency at the Methodist Hospital in Memphis and was in private practice of General Surgery there for 50 years, retiring in 1992. Elsie Virginia Kile, his sweetheart from Lebanon High School, graduated with top honors in her class at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, TN. They were married August 7, 1942. They were married 52 years to the day, Elsie dying of organic heart disease August 8, 1994.
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No Better Hope: What the Lincoln Memorial Means to America
 Brent K. Ashabranner
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Children’s LiteratureIn the fourth of his "Great American Memorials" series, Ashabranner presents Abraham Lincoln as the "larger than life" man whom many consider to be the greatest American president. In a tone that reflects Ashabranner’s own awe of Lincoln, the reader is introduced to the presidency of Lincoln and the building of the monument dedicated to his honor. The memorial was approved in 1912 and dedicated in 1922. Architect Henry Bacon and sculptor Daniel Chester French designed the memorial and the great statue of Lincoln. Together the men created the memorial that is most treasured by Americans. The Lincoln Memorial has been the site of many milestones in twentieth century America—the concert of contralto Marian Anderson in 1939, the famous "I Have a Dream" speech of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963, and the celebration to begin the year 2000. In this straightforward, yet moving, account of the impact of Lincoln and the Memorial, Ashabranner and his photographer daughter, Jennifer, again give young people a glimpse into America’s history and future. The book includes a table of contents, index, bibliography and information about the Lincoln Memorial. 2001, Twenty-First Century Books, $24.90. Ages 9 up. Reviewer: J. B. Petty VOYAThe Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., always has reflected this nation’s sense of unity and greatness. Designed to honor both Abraham Lincoln and the nation he strove to preserve, the edifice has been visited by more than two hundred million people since its construction in 1922. Seven chapters detail Lincoln as president and describe the intense means it took to create the memorial and the great statue that resides within. The architect, Henry Bacon, was invited in early 1912 by Congress to submit a tentative design for the memorial. His quickly adopted plans called for a monument that would appeal to emotions, placing the expressive statue sculpted by David French in the middle of a noble setting. French strove to "show the power he sensed in the bony ruggedness in Lincoln’s face and to add a look of thoughtful concern to the careworn features." Significantly, the memorial has become the rallying site for countless national causes and commemorative events, including the August 28, 1963, "I Have a Dream" speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It has become a symbol of hope and the patient confidence that Lincoln demonstrated through his wisdom and courage. The fourth book in Ashabranner’s Great Memorial series, the text includes many beautiful photographs by the author’s daughter. In describing the memorial and Lincoln’s place in history, this book explains why the nation should never forget the man and his ideals. Ashabranner’s book is highly recommended for middle and junior high school libraries. Index. Photos. Biblio. VOYA CODES: 4Q 4P M J (Better than most, marred only by occasional lapses; Broad general YA appeal; Middle School, defined as grades 6 to 8; Junior High, definedas grades 7 to 9). 2001, Twenty-First Century, 64p, $24.90. Ages 11 to 15. Reviewer: Anne Liebst School Library JournalGr 4-8-This slim volume is filled with facts. Brent Ashabranner opens with comments on the millennium celebration at the site and his emotional reaction to the memorial. He then presents a brief biographical sketch of President Lincoln that concentrates on the leader’s actions and speeches concerning slavery and the Union, and a discussion of how and when the Lincoln Memorial bill was signed into law. Separate chapters are dedicated to Henry Bacon, the memorial’s architect; Daniel Chester French, the sculptor; and the ideas they incorporated into the design of the work. The book concludes with information on the steps taken to preserve the site. The volume includes the text of the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation and a fact page that lists the dimensions and cost of the building and statue. Numerous color and black-and-white photographs, both recent and archival, illustrate this title. Older students may prefer Ernest Goldstein’s more comprehensive The Statue Abraham Lincoln (Lerner, 1997).-Margaret C. Howell, West Springfield Elementary School, VA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. Children’s Book WatchNo Better Hope is an unusual survey of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and is highly recommended for grades 3-5: it provides a fine survey of this symbol of national unity, covering the development of the Memorial, those involved in its creation, and Lincoln’s place in history. Photos by Jennifer Ashabranner abound.
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Sinners, Lovers, and Heroes: An Essay on Memorializing in Three American Cultures
 Richard Morris
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This book advances the thesis that memorials are fundamentally rhetorical and cultural forms of expression, that a careful examination of American memorializing discloses the contours of at least three distinct American cultures, and that shifting visual and discursive memorial patterns across time reveal the ascendancy and subordination of these three cultures and their cultural memories. It unveils a mode of human expression that embodies the ethoi and worldviews of divergent American cultures - each of which has possessed and continues to seek to possess America’s hegemonic voice and to become (or remain) the custodian of America’s collective memory.
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Booknews Using memorials to the deceased as an analytical lens on cultural and rhetorical expression, rather than the more typical analysis from an aesthetic perspective, Morris (communication, Northern Illinois U.) identifies three divergent American cultural groups: Religionists, Romanticists, and Heroistsas each responded idiosyncratically to Lincoln’s assassination. Such memorializing responses are categorized as synchronical (fixed in time and place) and diachronical (transforming over time). Bandw photographs of headstones, other grave markers, and memorials from the 17th to 20th century augment the author’s examination of a society’s collective memory as evoked by such sacred cultural icons. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Sinners, Lovers, and Heroes: An Essay on Memorializing in Three American Cultures
 Richard Joseph Morris
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This book advances the thesis that memorials are fundamentally rhetorical and cultural forms of expression, that a careful examination of American memorializing discloses the contours of at least three distinct American cultures, and that shifting visual and discursive memorial patterns across time reveal the ascendancy and subordination of these three cultures and their cultural memories. It unveils a mode of human expression that embodies the ethoi and worldviews of divergent American cultures - each of which has possessed and continues to seek to possess America’s hegemonic voice and to become (or remain) the custodian of America’s collective memory.
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Statue Abraham Lincoln: A Masterpiece by Daniel Chester French
 Ernest Goldstein
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Describes the thought and effort that went into Daniel French’s statue of Abraham Lincoln that is part of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and compares this likeness to others of Lincoln.
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Children’s Literature - Kathleen KarrWho needs an entire book just about that statue sitting in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.? Everyone, it turns out. The late art historian Goldstein created a small, unexpected gem which combines American History and Lincoln scholarship, reintroduces the long unsung sculptor French, and wraps it all up in a fairly brilliant examination of how to really look at art. In the hands of a good teacher, this book can make younger children excited about the construction of an epic statue (how craftsmen used pointing to make the actual statue from French’s clay model; how lighting completely changed Lincoln’s expression.) In the hands of older kids and adults, the book becomes a fascinating read. School Library JournalGr 5-8The focus here is on sculptor Daniel Chester French and how he came to make the statue that stands within the Lincoln Memorial. Goldstein also describes his subject’s other works and explains the intricacies of the Lincoln statue, giving much detail on how and why the hands are placed as they are. Information on other monuments to the fallen president, including the totem pole in Alaska, is also provided. The book is illustrated with archival and contemporary black-and-white photographs and reproductions, including a number of pictures of the different hands and the final construction from a number of pieces of marble. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural and the Gettysburg Addresses are included as is a chronology of the life of Daniel Chester French. The small-print, double-column format gives the presentation a text-book look. Although longer, this scholarly book is more limited in scope than Deborah Kent’s The Lincoln Memorial (Children’s, 1996), which is written for a younger audience and gives information on President Lincoln as well as a history of the memorial. The Statue is more of an art book than a travel or historical study and is therefore of more limited interest.Margaret C. Howell, West Springfield Elementary School, VA
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