Gettysburg – Memory, Market, and An American Shrine

Jim Weeks 6.5”x 9.5”, 274 pgs. Even as schoolchildren learn to revere the place where Lincoln delivered his most famous speech, Gettysburg’s image generates millions of dollars every year from tourism, souvenirs, reenactments, films, games, collecting, and the Internet. This book finds that the selling of Gettysburg is older than the shrine itself.