| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Barry Schwartz. Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 367. $27.50.

Barry Schwartz admits that "the realities of Lincoln in American memory resist easy theorizing" (p. 309). In this book, he analyzes collective memory, particularly its role as framework of meaning, by considering America's understanding of Abraham Lincoln from his death until the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922. (A second volume, not yet published, will follow Lincoln's image from the Depression and World War II through the era of the civil rights movement to the end of the twentieth century.) Schwartz argues against those scholars who, he says, find collective memory entirely constructed and generally manipulative, indeed coercive. Schwartz insists that the commemorative image of Lincoln, while not controlled by the historic Lincoln, is limited by it, and that no one class or interest has ever succeeded in monopolizing Lincoln's commemoration. . . .

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