| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2

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Book Review

A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory. By Emily S. Rosenberg. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. x + 236 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.)

Over the past decade, memory studies have experienced an explosive growth spurt, becoming a veritable cottage industry within the world of academic scholarship. That development mirrors the broader public fascination with the remembrance of things past—a cultural phenomenon that Emily Rosenberg, borrowing from historian Jay Winter, terms the "memory boom." Her examination of the ever-contested, ever-evolving struggle over societal recollections of the Pearl Harbor attack of December 1941, skillfully illuminates the intersection between memory and history. Rosenberg insists that "memory and history are blurred forms of representation whose structure and politics need to be analyzed not as oppositional but as interactive forms" (p. 5). To that end, she traces the varied cultural meanings that Americans have attached to the words "Pearl Harbor," along with the political battles those divergent meanings have both precipitated and reflected.

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