National trauma and collective memory : major events in the American century / Arthur G. Neal.

Author: Neal, Arthur G.

Imprint:Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1998.

Descriptionxi, 224 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Collective sadness, fear, and anger -- Society as moral community -- The Great Depression -- The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor -- The communist menace -- The Cuban missile crisis -- The assassination of President Kennedy -- The Vietnam war -- The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. -- The Watergate affair -- Technological accidents : the Challenger explosion, travel accidents, Three Mile Island, calamities to come -- Collective memory.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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