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Gary Alan Fine

Difficult Reputations

Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial

264 pages,  6 x 9  © 2001

Cloth $75.00

ISBN: 9780226249407   Published February 2001

Paper $22.00

ISBN: 9780226249414   Published April 2001

Acknowledgments
Introduction- Constructing Difficult Reputations
1. Benedict Arnold and the Commemoration of Treason
2. Warren Harding and the Memory of Incompetence
3. John Brown and the Legitimation of Political Violence
4. Fatty Arbuckle and the Creation of Public Attention
5. Henry Ford and the Multiple-Audience Problem
6. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, and the Creation of Imaginary Social Relations
7. Herman Melville and the Demise of Literary Reputation
8. Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, and Community Reputation
Conclusion- Difficult Reputations
Index
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