"Revealing debates about how to memorialize the last two decades of enormous social disruption ... from 9/11 to Black Lives Matter ... [This book is] a relevant discussion of what sacredness of space means in terms of education, culture, and economics."

Kirkus Reviews

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Marita Sturken’s compelling new book charts a significant shift in how many Americans today
understand national identity and purpose. Terror remains an active component, but activist
memory projects focused on racial terrorism suggest heightened interests in reckoning with
national histories of inequity and injustice.

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Erika Doss, author of <i>Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America</i>

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There is no scholar better suited to undertake an analysis of the modes of memorialization in the
post-9/11 era and their relationship to US national identity. In her deft analysis, Sturken
painstakingly articulates the state of memory politics in the contemporary US. This is a must
read for anyone interested in memorial forms and the cultural work they perform.

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Alison Landsberg, author of <i>Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Know

"Sturken presents an intriguing and impassioned argument that helps to document through words and images the recent decades of the ‘memory boom'"

J. K. Dabbs, University of Minnesota--Morris, CHOICE