Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory (Cultureamerica)

by Benjamin Hufbauer (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $57.53

  Describing how presidential commemoration has evolved over the past century, 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.