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Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum - Softcover

Linenthal, Edward

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Synopsis

Since its first year in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has attracted more than 15 millino visitors, sometimes at the rate of 10,000 a day, each of whom has walked away with an indelible impression of awe in the face of the unimaginable. This lively, honest, behind-the-scenes account details the emotionally complex fifteen-year struggle surrounding the museum's birth.

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About the Author

Edward Linenthal is professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory and Sacred Ground: Americans and their Battlefields.

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