Barry Schwartz 74205

Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era - History and Memory in Late Twentieth - Century America. History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America

University of Chicago Press, 2009. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 384. By the 1920s, Abraham Lincoln had transcended the lingering controversies of the Civil War to become a secular saint, honored in the North and South alike. Throughout the Great Depression and World War II, Lincoln was invoked as a reminder of America's strength and wisdom, a commanding ideal against which weary citizens could see their own hardships in perspective.But as Barry Schwartz reveals in Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era , those years represent the apogee of Lincoln's prestige. The decades following World War II brought radical changes to American culture, changes that led to the diminishing of all heroes - Lincoln not least among them. As Schwartz explains, growing sympathy for the plight of racial minorities, disenchantment with the American state, and an intensifying celebration of diversity all contributed to a culture in which neither Lincoln nor any single person could be a heroic symbol for all Americans. Paradoxically, however, the very culture that made Lincoln an object of indifference, questioning, criticism, and even ridicule was a culture of unprecedented beneficence and inclusion, where racial, ethnic, and religious groups treated one another more fairly and justly than ever before. Thus, as the prestige of the Great Emancipator shrank, his legacy of equality continued to flourish.Schwartz documents the decline of Lincoln's public standing, asking throughout whether there is any path back from this post-heroic era. Can a new generation of Americans embrace again their epic past, including great leaders whom they know to be flawed? As the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial approaches, readers will discover here a stirring reminder that Lincoln, as a man, still has much to say to us - about our past, our present, and our possible futures. ISBN: 9780226741888. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Aldus Manutius and Renaissance Culture. Essays in Memory of Franklin D. Murphy. Acts of an International Confe

Edited by D. S. Zeidberg. Firenze, 1998, Olschki Ed. The fifteen essays about Aldus Coll. Villa i Tatti - The Harv cm.18x25,5, 340 pp. con 60 tavv. f.t.,

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Book number: 98577

Catalogue: Bibliografia, Bibliofilia, Storia dell'editoria

Adam Nossiter 12635

The Algeria Hotel. France, memory and the Second World War

Methuen, 2001. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Drawn from his odyssey through France where he talked with people and revisited historical events, the author presents a narrative about France's true involvement in World War II and how the French live with the dark secrets of the war even today. The Algeria Hotel in Vichy was the site of the Gestapo headquarters in World War 2. This book searches for the ghosts of modern France, from collaboration to collusion to compromise, with a resonant story about how we remember and why we forget. ISBN: 9780413759504. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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{Alim le-Zikhro} (Essays in memory of R. Avinoam) .

Tel-Aviv, 1976. 175 pp. Illustrated. Or. wrps. IN HEBREW.

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Book number: 22995

Catalogue: Jubilee

American Treasures in the Library of Congress Memory, Reason, Imagination

NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's red cloth over red boards with white lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Rear cover has some faint wrinkles in the fabric of the binding (probably binder's error), spine is slightly cocked, else pristine, unmarked, tight and clean. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed at the head of the spine and has some faint impressions on the bottom edge of the rear cover. NEAR FINE/ NEAR FINE. Color Photographs. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 176 pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Round Table Books, LLCProfessional seller

Book number: 18200

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: History Reference Americana History Reference

American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space

Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky, 1989. First Edition. 0 pp. PAPERBACK. 0813101824. Fine in wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Pearlman. Unusually good bibliographies. Fine/Issued without dust jacket.

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Book number: b12277

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Annual for the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. Vol. 54 (2010). Dedicated to the Memory of Dr. Fawwaz Al-Khraysheh.

Amman 2010. 4°. 516 S. m. Abb. Br. Vorderdeckel etwas verkratzt. Ecke etwas geknickt.

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Book number: 95140EB

Catalogue: Altertumswissenschaft - Archäologie

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Antiguo Hospital de San Pedro: Albergue de la Memoria = the Old Hospital of St. Peter. Haven of Memory.

México, Museo Poblano de Arte Virreinal, 1999. frontis. b/w and color plates, color facs. maps and plans. draw. indices. ports. gloss. color pict. wrps. 29.5cm. .

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Book number: 52850

Catalogue: Architecture

Architektur Aktuell 11/2001. THEMA: memory.

Wien, Springer, 2001. 168 S. Standardeinband. In German and English. INHALT: Boeckl: Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände in Nürnberg/ Nazi Party Congress Grounds Documentation Centre, Nuremberg (Günther Domenig). Boeckl: Synagoge/ Synagogue in Dresden (Wandel Hoefer Lorch Hirsch). Bartetzko: Schutzbau für die mittelalterliche Synagoge in Marburg/ Protective Structure for a Mediaeval Synagogue in Germany (Schultze + Schulze). Boeckl: Umbau Farbenhaus Amonn in Bozen/ Redesign of Amonn Farbenhaus (paint house) Bolzano, Italy (Peter Plattner). Achleitner: Glasfenster der Evangelischen Kirche in Villach, Kärnten/ New Windows for the Evangelical Church, Austria (Pointner/Pointner/Ullmann). Ring: St. Franziskus Kirche in Steyr, Oberösterreich (Riepl Riepl). Brücke im Naturpark Schlern, Südtirol/ Bridge in Schlern Nature Park, South Tyrol (monovolume). Guter Zustand/ Good Free shipping within Germany. Shipping costs to EU-countries: 9.50 EUR, to non-EU-countries: 15.00 EUR.

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Book number: 245194

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Ayman Trawi 21941

Beirut's Memory / La Memoire De Beyrouth

Anis Commercial Printing Press, 2000. Gekartonneerd. Pp: 302. Holografische prent op de cover van het boek. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Book number: 32082

Catalogue: Fotografie

Between East and West. Essays dedicated to the memory of Bela Horovitz. Ed. by A. Altmann.

London, 1958. 214 pp. and portrait. Fine copy. Orig. cloth with dustjacket in slipcase. Among the essays: Martin Buber: Hasidism and modern man.; Samuel Hugo Bergman: Hermann Cohen; Nathum N. Glatzer: Franz Kafka and the tree of knowledge; Joseph Heller: Maimonides' theory of miracle; Alexander Altmann: Franz Rosenzweig on history;.

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Book number: 22881

Catalogue: Jubilee

Greg Iles 43121

Blood Memory

Egully.com, 2006. Paperback. Pp: 512. He kills like an animal, but the bite marks on his victims are unmistakeably human. In the suffocating heat of a New Orleans summer evening, forensic expert Cat Ferry picks up the phone and knows he's struck again. ISBN: 9780340833698. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Petina Gappah 110240

Het boek van Memory

Atlas Contact, 2015. Paperback. Pp: 304. 'Een voortreffelijk schrijfster, een rijzende ster.' - J.M. CoetzeeMemory kwijnt weg in de Extra Beveiligde Gevangenis Chikurubi in Harare, Zimbabwe, waar ze berecht en veroordeeld is voor de moord op Lloyd Hendricks, haar adoptievader. De doodstraf staat haar te wachten, tenzij ze in hoger beroep vrijgesproken wordt. Haar advocate dringt erop aan dat ze alles opschrijft precies zoals zij het zich herinnert. Memory schrijft dus zowel letterlijk als figuurlijk voor haar leven. Hoe is Lloyd om het leven gekomen? Hoe kwam Memory als meisje van negen bij hem te wonen? Waarom gelooft ze dat haar ouders haar verkocht hebben? En is alles precies zo gegaan als zij zich herinnert?. ISBN: 9789025446536. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Bonsall Within Living Memory

Derbyshire: Bonsall History Group, 2018. Paperback. ISBN: 1999359216. 193pp, illustrated, previous owners details on title page. Paperback ; quarto. Very Good .

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Petina Gappah 110240

The Book of Memory

Faber & Faber. Paperback. Pp: 288. Moving between the vibrant townships of the poor and the suburbs and country retreats of the rich, The Book of Memory is a compelling, contemporary tale of love, obsession and the cruelty of fate. At nine years old she was adopted by a wealthy man - a man whose murder she is now convicted of. ISBN: 9780571249916. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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