LOOKING FOR THE GOOD WAR
American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
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| Categoría | Estados Unidos |
| ISBN | 9780374219925 |
| Peso | 0.60 |
| Idioma | Inglés |
| Editorial | Farrar, Straus And Giroux |
| Autor | Samet, Elizabeth D |
| Tapa | Cartoné |
| Año | 2021 |
| Ciudad | Nueva York |
| Páginas | 368 |
Biographical Note:
Elizabeth D. Samet is the author of No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America; Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest and was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times; and Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898. Samet is the editor of Leadership: Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers, The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, and World War II Memoirs: Pacific Theater. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Grant and the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, she was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support the research and writing of Looking for the Good War. She is a professor of English at West Point.
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Winner of the American Philosophical Society's Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History
Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
"Looking for the Good War is a remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war . . . Samet is a fine writer with a gift for powerful arguments articulated in elegant prose." --Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post
"Discerning . . . A work of unsparing demystification--and there is something hopeful and even inspiring in this. Like the cadets [Samet] teaches at West Point, civilians would do well to see World War II as something other than a buoyant tale of American goodness trouncing Nazi evil." --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
"Magisterial . . . Samet has taught soldiers who served in 21st-century wars, and she forces us to confront the fact that these wars were consumed as myths back home." --Ben Rhodes, The New York Times Book Review