Difficult Reputations
Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial
264 pages, 6 x 9
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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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