December 8, 2006

Presidential Libraries and Their Role in the Writing of History

By EUGENE MCCORMACK

Benjamin Hufbauer, an associate professor of fine arts at the University of Louisville

Unlike the presidents who came before him, Franklin D. Roosevelt did not wait until death to be memorialized. During his second term, he created a shrine to himself in the form of a library — a gesture repeated by every subsequent president. Mr. Hufbauer's book Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory (University Press of

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