Difficult reputations : collective memories of the evil, inept, and controversial /
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Benedict Arnold and the commemoration of treason
- Warren Harding and the memory of incompetence
- John Brown and the legitimation of political violence
- Fatty Arbuckle and the creation of public attention
- Henry Ford and the multiple-audience problem
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, and the creation of imaginary social relations
- Herman Melville and the demise of literary reputation
- Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, and community reputation.