Sticky reputations : the politics of collective memory in midcentury America /

Sticky Reputations focuses on reputational entrepreneurs and support groups shaping how we think of important figures, within a crucial period in American history, from the 1930s through the 1950s. Why are certain figures such as Adolf Hitler, Joe McCarthy and Martin Luther King cemented into histor...

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Other Authors: Fine, Gary Alan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
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