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The mystic chords of memory : the transformation of tradition in American culture / Michael Kammen.
LIBRA E169.1 .K294 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kammen, Michael G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- Civilization.
- Patriotism--United States.
- Patriotism.
- Memory--Social aspects--United States.
- Memory.
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 864 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
- Summary:
- With the same exacting scholarship, brilliant cultural analysis, and stylish prose that won him a Pulitzer Prize for A Machine That Would Go of Itself, Kammen examines the paradox of American tradition. How, he asks, did the" land of the future" acquire a past? And how has our collective memory of that past been distorted--and, at times, manufactured? 145 photos.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 710-825) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 0679741771
- 9780679741770
- OCLC:
- 26551629
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