Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies

by Sanford Levinson

Book Overview

Is it "Stalinist" for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capitol? Is it possible for America to honor General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? Indeed, can a liberal, multicultural society memorialize anyone at all, or is it committed to a strict neutrality about the quality of the lives led by its citizens?

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082232220X
• ISBN13: 9780822322207
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Written in Stone : Public Monuments in Changing Societies

The author of Written in Stone attempts the task of interpretting monuments in changing societies. Often one does not think about how monuments hold one moment in time stagnant, yet socieites change and the monuments usually still stand. Levinson utilizes a wide variety of examples to look at the question of monuments in changing societies. Levinson's book is the first substanitial work of I seen written on the subject of monuments when societies change and it is likely not to be the last. For further reading Levinson's footnote are well done.