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Article: A Day Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- December 22, 2006
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A Day Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory. By Emily S. Rosenberg. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University, 2003. Pp. x, 236. $18.95.)
This is a brilliantly conceived, carefully organized, and persuasively argued exploration of the way in which the interaction of history and memory, guided and transformed by modern media, can profoundly illuminate cultural values and political controversies. Emily Rosenberg's study of "Pearl Harbor" has as its focus not so much the historical event itself, but rather the shifting meanings of the two words in American culture and political consciousness. Her thesis is that "historical memory"--history as it is received through ...