- Gebundene Ausgabe: 354 Seiten
- Verlag: Univ of California Pr (Januar 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0520214811
- ISBN-13: 978-0520214811
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,1 x 15,5 x 3,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.070.994 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"Meyer is a seasoned guide leading the reader through the swamps, thickets, and political sticky wickets of the history of this capital city on the banks of the Potomac. All the while, he regales the reader with tales of the motley cast, the noble and the not-so-noble, the visionaries and the near-sighted, who helped to create the capital as we know it today. No other work captures the ongoing nature of the multiple retellings of this myth-in-stone as well as Meyer's has." -Gary Ebersole, author of Captured by Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian Captivity "Jeffrey Meyer takes his readers on a very different 'tour' of Washington, D.C. He excavates the ways in which core convictions of a nation are embodied in space and expressed in art and architecture. Myths in Stone is a rich evocation of the dynamic life of America's sacred center." -Edward T. Linenthal, author of Preserving Memory The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum"
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Washington, D.C., is a city of powerful symbols - from the dominance of the Capitol dome and Washington Monument to the authority of the Smithsonian. This book takes us on a fascinating and informative tour of the nation's capital as Jeffrey F. Meyer unravels the complex symbolism of the city and explores its meaning for our national consciousness. Meyer finds that mythic and religious themes pervade the capital - in its original planning, in its monumental architecture, and in the ritualized events that have taken place over the 200 years the city has been the repository for the symbolism of the nation. As Meyer tours the city's famous axial layout, he discusses many historical figures and events, compares Washington to other great cities of the world such as Beijing and Berlin, and discusses the meaning and history of its architecture and many works of art. Treating Washington, D.C., as a complex religious center, Meyer finds that the city functions as a unifying element in American consciousness. This book will change the way we look at Washington, D.C., and provide a provocative new look at the meaning of religion in America today. It will also be a valuable companion for those traveling to this city that was envisioned from its inception as the center of the world.
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AT A TIME when there were only a few million Europeans in the entire fifteen United States, Pierre Charles L'Enfant conceived grandiose plan for a national capital to rival the capitals of the great European nations. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Washington, D.C. as a place of spiritual pilgrimage...
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Who would have thought of Washington, D.C. as a spiritual destination? You will think so after reading this rich, soulful guidebook to the capital's architectural idiosyncrasies. This author, whom I find more inspiring and much more readable than mythologist Joseph Campbell, escorts the reader on a journey to the mythic center of what Lincoln called "the last great hope of mankind." What better time in our history to visit and revisit it as sacred space. In the words of the author, "to visit Washington is to experience the retelling of a story of mythic proportions." The conclusions Meyer draws from his epiphany, described in the chapter entitled "Reflections," are alone worth the price of the book.
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