Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall

Zusatztext "A thought-provoking book." Informationen zum Autor Kristin Ann Hass is Associate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan and the author of Carried to the Wall: American Memory and The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (University of California Press! 1998). Klappentext "... A compelling and important set of arguments about the role of public memory in contemporary America. Hass's research on individual memorials is deep and impressive. I definitely and strongly recommend [this book]."-Beth Bailey! author of America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force Zusammenfassung For the city's first two hundred years, the story told at Washington DC's symbolic center, the National Mall, was about triumphant American leaders. Since 1982, when the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated, the narrative has shifted to emphasize the memory of American wars. This title examines this war memorial boom. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Forgetting the Remembered War at the Korean War Veterans Memorial 2. Legitimating the National Family with the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial 3. The Nearly Invisible Women in Military Service for America Memorial 4. Impossible Soldiers and the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism during World War II 5. "We Leave You Our Deaths! Give Them Their Meaning": Triumph and Tragedy at the National World War II Memorial Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Ann Hass, Hass Kristin Ann
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.03.2013
• EAN: 9780520274112
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27411-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; District of Columbia (Washington D.C.), HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, District Of Columbia (Washington, Dc), Military institutions, Memorials & Rolls Of Honour