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The Lincoln Memorial & American life
By Thomas, Christopher A.
- ISBN
- 978-0-69101-194-3
- Publisher
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2002
Thomas'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, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
