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Since its first year in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has attracted more than 15 millino visitors, sometimes at the rate of 10,000 a day, each of whom has walked away with an indelible impression of awe in the face of the unimaginable. This lively, honest, behind-the-scenes account details the emotionally complex fifteen-year struggle surrounding the museum's birth.
Price: $38.00
Pages: 352
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
26 September 2001
Trim Size: 9.10 X 6.34 in
ISBN: 9780231124072
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
HISTORY / United States / General, RELIGION / Judaism / General
Edward Linenthal is professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory and Sacred Ground: Americans and their Battlefields.
Preface: Violence and American Landscape
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Locating Holocaust Memory in American Culture
1. The Decision to Remember
2. The Site of Holocaust Memory
3. Embryonic Thoughts: The Commission's Museum Beginnings: 1980-87
4. Interior Space: The Mood of Memory
Conclusion. Mobilizing Holocaust Memory
Notes
Index