| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War. By Shirley Samuels. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii, 186 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-19-512897-4.)

Ranging among prints, photographs, statuary, and written texts, Shirley Samuels considers the question of representation in the Civil War era. What does it mean, she asks, to be faced or to have a face, at a time when war was disfiguring faces and when other cultural forces made the issue of identity problematic? Is it possible to imagine that the nation has a "face?" The power of Samuels's brief book derives from the provocative nature of her questions and from the confidence with which she considers a wide variety of materials. The book's drawback derives from those same elements: the volume seems finally to be scattered, impressionistic, and undeveloped, a set of stimulating notes for a much more elaborate study.

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