Looking for the good war : American amnesia and the violent pursuit of happiness
(2021)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
940.5373/SAMET,E
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
354 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374219925, 0374219923 :, 0374219923, 9780374219925
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Age of Gold -- Dead-Shot American Cowboys -- Thieves Like Us -- "War, What Is It Good For?" -- 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.""--