Sinners, lovers, and heroes
Subtitle: an essay on memorializing in three American cultures
By: Richard Morris.
Series: SUNY series in communication and the struggle for identity in postmodernity
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Monuments.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Public opinion.; Memorials -- United States.; Memory -- Social aspects -- United States.; Group identity -- United States.
Description: This book advances the thesis that memorials are fundamentally rhetorical and cultural forms of expression, that a careful examination of American memorializing discloses the contours of at least three distinct American cultures, and that shifting visual and discursive memorial patterns across time reveal the ascendancy and subordination of these three cultures and their cultural memories.

It unveils a mode of human expression that embodies the ethoi and worldviews of divergent American cultures - each of which has possessed and continues to seek to possess America's hegemonic voice and to become (or remain) the custodian of America's collective memory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-225) and index.