Preserving Memory
Subtitle: The Making of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780140245493
First sentence: THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION'S DECISION to create a commission whose task it was to recommend an appropriate national Holocaust memorial is often characterized as "political," implying that the underlying motivation had little to do with interest in Holocaust memory and everything to do with the domestic political priority of appeasing Jewish interests.