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Carried to the wall : American memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Title
Carried to the wall : American memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Kristin Ann Hass.
Author
Hass, Kristin Ann, 1965-
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description
x, 188 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies > United States
  • Patriotism > United States
  • War memorials > United States
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Public opinion
  • Public opinion > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-179) and index.
Contents
Introduction: A Restless Memory of War -- 1. Making a Memory of War: Building the Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- 2. Discovering the Memory of Bodies: A History of American War Memorials -- 3. Seashell Monuments and Cities for the Silent: American Funerary Traditions -- 4. The Things: Remembering Bodies and Remaking the Nation -- 5. "You Are Not Forgotten": Mourning for America -- Epilogue: Public Memory at the End of the American Century.
ISBN
  • 0520204131 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520213173 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
97046807
OCLC
ocm38061536
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries