Looking for the good war : American amnesia and the violent pursuit of happiness /
Samet, Elizabeth D.,
Looking for the good war : American amnesia and the violent pursuit of happiness / American amnesia and the violent pursuit of happiness. Elizabeth D. Samet. - First edition. - 354 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue: Is This Trip Really Necessary? -- Introduction: One War at a Time -- 1. Age of Gold -- 2. Dead-Shot American Cowboys -- 3. Thieves Like Us -- 4. "War, What Is It Good For?" -- 5. Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels -- Epilogue: Age of Iron.
"From the acclaimed author of No Man's Land and Soldier's Heart, a wide-ranging work of cultural history and criticism that reexamines the impact of post-World War II myths of the "good war.""--
0374219923 9780374219925
2021028289
1939-1945
Collective memory--United States.
Memory--Social aspects--United States.
War and society--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Influence.--United States
D744.7 .U6 / S264 2021
940.53/73
Looking for the good war : American amnesia and the violent pursuit of happiness / American amnesia and the violent pursuit of happiness. Elizabeth D. Samet. - First edition. - 354 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue: Is This Trip Really Necessary? -- Introduction: One War at a Time -- 1. Age of Gold -- 2. Dead-Shot American Cowboys -- 3. Thieves Like Us -- 4. "War, What Is It Good For?" -- 5. Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels -- Epilogue: Age of Iron.
"From the acclaimed author of No Man's Land and Soldier's Heart, a wide-ranging work of cultural history and criticism that reexamines the impact of post-World War II myths of the "good war.""--
0374219923 9780374219925
2021028289
1939-1945
Collective memory--United States.
Memory--Social aspects--United States.
War and society--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Influence.--United States
D744.7 .U6 / S264 2021
940.53/73