| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory. By Benjamin Hufbauer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. xviii, 270 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-1422-2.)
Benjamin Hufbauer has tackled a topic of interest to historians, archivists, and museum planners. The creation of increasingly elaborate museums and libraries dedicated to the individual careers of presidents has sparked considerable professional debate. Can presidential libraries meet the goals of presidents and donors to memorialize personal legacies and at the same time provide museum visitors and scholars with accurate and balanced historical information?	1
As an art historian, Hufbauer looks at presidential libraries as cultural manifestations. His central thesis, derived from Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s The Imperial Presidency (1973), proposes that "the presidential library is a symptom of the striking expansion of presidential authority that has occurred during an era when the United States became the most powerful country in the world" (p. 3).	. . .

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