Looking for the Good War PDF book is popular History book written by Elizabeth D. Samet. The book was released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 2021-11-30 with total hardcover pages 241. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Looking for the Good War by Elizabeth D. Samet in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
“A remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war.” —Robert G. Kaiser, Th
A wide-ranging work of cultural history and criticism that reexamines the impact of post–World War II myths of the “good war.” “Essential reading. This
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “The richest and most powerful single document of the American experience in World War II” (The Boston Globe). “The Good War
Elizabeth D. Samet and her students learned to romanticize the army "from the stories of their fathers and from the movies." For Samet, it was the old World War
