Looking for the good war : American amnesia and the violent pursuit of happiness / Elizabeth D. Samet.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 354 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 0374219923
- 9780374219925
- American amnesia and the violent pursuit of happiness
- 940.53/73 23
- D744.7 .U6 S264 2021
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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.""-- Provided by publisher.
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