Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields

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"From the anniversary speeches at Lexington and Concord that shaped the image of the minuteman to recent Alamo Day speeches invoking thje Texas 'freedom fighters' of 1836 in support of the contras in Nicaragua; from passionate arguments over the placement of Confederate monuments at Gettysburg to confrontations between the militant American Indian Movement and the 'Custer loyalists' during the Little Bigborn centennial in 1976; from the treatment of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor to continuing attempts to maintain the purity of these places in the face of commercialization-SACRED GROUND details the ongoing struggles to define, control, and subvert patriotic faith as expressed at these ceremonial sites." This book has 227 pages and is illustrated. The book is a SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION copy from the author, Edward Tabor Linenthal. N° de ref. del artículo 063100

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