Presidential temples
Subtitle: how memorials and libraries shape public memory
By: Benjamin Hufbauer.
Series: CultureAmerica; Culture America.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Presidents -- Monuments -- United States; Presidential libraries -- United States; Library architecture -- United States; Memorials -- United States; Memory -- Social aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The transformation of presidential commemoration; title: Prologue: the words in the Lincoln Memorial; title: A shift in commemoration: the Roosevelt Presidential Library; title: The rhetoric of the replica: the Truman Library's Oval Office and Benton Mural; title: Symbolic power, democratic access, and the imperial presidency: the Johnson Library; title: Celebrity and power: the commemoration of first ladies; title: Reinventing the presidential library: the new displays at the Truman Museum; title: Conclusion: Presidential libraries and the final campaign.