| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Gettysburg: Memory, Market, and an American Shrine. By Jim Weeks. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xii, 267 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-10271-6.)

When the smoke cleared on the Gettysburg battlefield on July 3, 1863, the immediate significance of the battle was clear. Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North had been repulsed, and the war seemed to be turning in favor of the Union. The people of Gettysburg were left with thousands of dead and wounded, destroyed buildings, and other legacies of the battle. Little did they know that their town would soon emerge as one of the nation's most popular historical attractions. As Jim Weeks argues in this insightful book, the significance and meaning of Gettysburg as a place in the American imagination were evolving ideas shaped by economics, cultural change, and the currents of the nation's historical memory.

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