Presidential temples : how memorials and libraries shape public memory / Benjamin Hufbauer.
This book explores the visual and material cultures of presidential commemoration--memorials and monuments, libraries and archives--and the problematic ways in which presidents themselves have largely taken over their own commemoration. The author sees these various commemorative sites as playing a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
©2005.
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| Series: | Culture America.
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| Summary: | This book explores the visual and material cultures of presidential commemoration--memorials and monuments, libraries and archives--and the problematic ways in which presidents themselves have largely taken over their own commemoration. The author sees these various commemorative sites as playing a key role in the construction of our collective political and cultural self-images and as another sign of our preoccupation with celebrity culture. Ultimately, he contends, these presidential temples reflect not only our civil religion but also the extraordinary expansion of executive authority--and presidential self-commemoration--since FDR. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-258) and index. |