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Title: The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory by Edward Tabor Linenthal ISBN: 0-19-516107-6 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: An academic approach to a painful event
Comment: The 1995 bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City shook the nation and produced a modest flurry of books. This late addition fills in a few blanks that may interest specialists.
A life of Timothy McVeigh might enjoy wide appeal, and terrorist plots have a gruesome fascination, but readers won't find them here. Edward Linenthal, Professor of Religion and American Culture at the University of Wisconsin spends little time on the bombers and the explosion. He has written a history of ideas, an academic field in which the books may outnumber the readers. In works of this genre, the author first asks a question. Thus, was the bombing a senseless atrocity? Or was it an act one would expect in the U.S., a culture that glamorizes violence? Having asked a question, the author doesn't answer it. He collects everyone else's answer, assembling page after page of quotes from editorials, talk shows, pundits, politicians, clergymen, and academics. After recording these thoughts, the author draws no conclusions. The chapter ends. Another chapters introduces another question. Was God or Satan responsible for the catastrophe? Oklahomans are a conservative people, and there is no shortage of feeling that a federal government that keeps the Bible out of schools bears much responsibility. Ironically, clergymen are far more restrained than laymen in laying blame. Mostly, clergymen admit they can't explain it.
For years after the blast, the city argued vehemently over a proper memorial for the victims. The author considers this such an important controversy that he devotes half the book to it. With the memorial complete, I doubt if many residents of Oklahoma City want to read about the pros and cons of the design. It has even less appeal to anyone else.
Rating: 5
Summary: A timely casestudy of the American mourning/memorial process
Comment: 'The Unfinished Bombing' provides a glimpse into what happened in Oklahoma City AFTER the bombing, and details the evolution of the National Memorial completed in 2000. In light of what happened on 9/11/2001, this book provides a remarkable insight into how we as a society grieve and memorialize sites of national tragedy. This is not any easy or simple process, and Linenthal does an excellent job in explaining what happened in OKC, and the wide variety of issues that were confonted in developing the memorial.
I would recommend this book to anyone considering how America should memorialize the World Trade Center site.
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Title: Preserving Memory by Edward Tabor Linenthal ISBN: 0231124074 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Shadowed Ground : America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy, revised and updated by Kenneth E. Foote ISBN: 0292705255 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields by Edward Tabor Linenthal, Robert M. Utley ISBN: 0252061713 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering by Marita Sturken ISBN: 0520206207 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning by James E. Young, James B. Young ISBN: 0300059914 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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