Good War in American Memory

Name: Good War in American Memory
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ISBN: 9781421405827

ISBN-10: 1421405822

ISBN-13: 9781421405827

Edition: 2010

Authors: John Bodnar

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The "Good War" in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodnar's sociocultural examination of the vast public debate that took place in the United States over the war's meaning reveals that the idea of the "good war" was highly contested.Bodnar's comprehensive study of the disagreements that marked the American remembrance of World War II in the six decades following its end draws on an array of sources: fiction and nonfiction, movies, theater, and public monuments. He identifies alternative strands of memory—tragic and brutal versus heroic and virtuous—and reconstructs controversies involving veterans,…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 2/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

John Bodnar is the Chancellor's Professor of History and the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University. He has authored or edited nine other books, including Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film, also published by Johns Hopkins.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Wartime



Soldiers Write the War



"No Place for Weaklings"



Monuments and Mourning



The Split Screen



The Outsiders



The Victors


Conclusion


Postscript on Iraq


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index


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