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

Edward T. Linenthal

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September, 2001
Paper, 352 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12407-2
$25.00 / £17.50

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.

Related Subjects

• American History
• Judaism

About the Author

Edward T. Linenthal is professor of religious studies at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He is the author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory and Sacred Ground: Americans and their Battlefields.

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