{"product_id":"sacred-ground-americans-and-their-battlefields","title":"Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields","description":"Americans have persistently expressed fascination with the nation's most\nfamous battlefields through patriotic rhetoric, monument building, physical\npreservation, and battle reenactment. But each site is also a place where\ndifferent groups of Americans come to compete for ownership of cherished\nnational stories and to argue about the meaning of war, the importance\nof martial sacrifice, and the significance of preserving the nation's\npatriotic landscape.\nFrom the anniversary speeches at Lexington and Concord that shaped the\nimage of the minuteman to Alamo Day speeches invoking the Texas \"freedom\nfighters\" of 1836 in support of the contras in Nicaragua; from passionate\narguments over the placement of Confederate monuments at Gettysburg to\nconfrontations between militant American Indian Movement and \"Custer\nloyalists\" during the Little Bighorn centennial in 1976; from the\ntreatment of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor to continuing attempts\nto maintain the purity of these places in the face of commercialization---Sacred\nGround details the ongoing struggles to define, control, and subvert\npatriotic faith as expressed at these ceremonial sites.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0252061713\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0252061713.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Linenthal, Edward\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is a well used but readable copy. Integrity of the book is still intact with no missing pages. May have notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45922334343345,"sku":"RDV.0252061713.A","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0252061713-0.jpg?v=1751650401","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/sacred-ground-americans-and-their-battlefields","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}