Memory: Fragments Of A Modern History By Alison Winter

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Memory: Fragments of a Modern History

By Alison Winter

February 11th, 2012; Vol.181 #3 (p. 31)

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With examples from police interrogators to hypnotized housewives, a historian describes changing views of memory — what it is, how it’s formed and what it means.

Univ. of Chicago, 2012, 310 p., $30

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