sacred ground americans battlefields de linenthal edward tabor (9 résultats)

Etat : Good. Very good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with minimal wear and creasing.

Paperback. Etat : Used - Very Good. 2nd Printing. Chapter on Little Big Horn.

Trade Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Muench, David - Cover (illustrateur). Second Edition - Seventh OPrinting. 259 Pages Indexed. Covers show some edge wear and the front cover corners are a bit turned up. Three bookstore ISBN labels have been added to the back cover. Beyond that is an As New book with flawless interior text pages. The author tells the history and role of five of America's most famous battle-site memorials: Lexington-Concord, the Alamo, Gettysburg, the Little Big Horn, and Pearl Harbor. Americans have always been inspired by visiting places where citizen armies turned ordinary land into sacred ground by their bloody sacrifices in epic battles. These venerated sites, the author says, provide a powerful focus for national reflections that enrich legends, often promoted by power groups. Lexington-Concord symbolized the valor of plain citizens risking death to shake off a tyranny and build a new society. The work of historians, the author argues, has changed perceptions of the Little Big Horn and altered the Custer myth. The author relates how the survivors of Gettysburg, once bitter enemies, would in time find friendship together while visitors would only occasionally be reminded of the forgotten message of Lincoln--that military valor and sacrifice would be in vain if a people would still be divided. Linenthal finds that the Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor has seldom healed the average visitor's resentment toward Japan. This is an authoritative study of the nature of the American patriotic spirit as observed in its most hallowed memorials. Illustrated with 118 photographs, maps, and drawings. Contents in Five Chapters: The Pivot on Which the World Turns Lexington and Concord, A Reservoir of Spiritual Power The Alamo, A Joint and Precious Heritage Gettysburg, A Sore from America's Past That Has Not Yet Healed, and Rust and Sea and Memory in This Strange Graveyard Pearl Harbor. Plus Conclusion and Epilogue. Large heavy book that may incur additional charges for shipping to some locations.

Hardcover. Etat : Used - Like New. 1st Edition. Chapter on Little Big Horn, one of five battle grounds author considers sacred in American culture.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. 228 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 227 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : NEW CONDITION. Etat de la jaquette : NEW DUST JACKET. First Edition, First Printing. //NO REMAINDER MARK//NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKS OF ANY KIND (no names or inscriptions, no bookplate, no underlining, etc) //NOT PRICECLIPPED// NEW MYLAR COVER//. AUTHOR SIGNED - signature only.

1991, Popular Culture, North America, University of Illinois, 227 p., very good cloth and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. EX-library copy (Stamped "withdrawn", hence graded only good. Having said that, the book lookslittle used, and if not for the usual stamps I would graded it as fine in fine dust wrapper. ; 10.3 X 7.3 X 1.1 inches; 352 pp.