Unveiling of the National Icons A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalist Era

"His intention in seeking to persuade people that they can be shapers of meaning is admirable, and if too many of his interpretations are farfetched, he can also be perceptive. To benefit from his insights, the reader will have to work through some opaque prose. Still, no one who reads 'The Unveiling of the National Icons' is likely to look at our national monuments in quite the same way again.Boime, Albert is the author of 'Unveiling of the National Icons A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalist Era', published 1997 under ISBN 9780521570671 and ISBN 0521570670.