By Sherman Dorn on June 30, 2004
With the death of Ronald Reagan, there were the inevitable “what is his place in history?” gabfests as well as proposals to put his name or face on everything from the $20 bill to Mount Rushmore. What was missing in the latter was a sense of perspective about memorial acts and sites as public events […]
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Kitsch memorials
By Sherman Dorn on June 30, 2004
With the death of Ronald Reagan, there were the inevitable “what is his place in history?” gabfests as well as proposals to put his name or face on everything from the $20 bill to Mount Rushmore. What was missing in the latter was a sense of perspective about memorial acts and sites as public events […]
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