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Book Review


The Lincoln Memorial & American Life. By Christopher A. Thomas. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xxxiv, 213 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-01194-X.)
As Christopher Thomas notes, to most Americans who visit Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial seems timeless and eternal. As he demonstrates, however, rather than being inevitable, the Lincoln Memorial was finished only after a great deal of political wrangling. In fact, it appeared at times that the memorial would not be built at all and that Abraham Lincoln might be immortalized by a road running from Washington to Gettysburg, a tribute that some argued was a more appropriate honor for a common man. . . .
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