Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness by Elizabeth D. Samet

Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness

Elizabeth D. Samet

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology challenging informative medium-paced
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Samet finds the war's ambivalent legacy in some of its most heavily mythologized figures: the war correspondent epitomized by Ernie Pyle, the character of the erstwhile G.I. turned either cop or criminal in the pulp fiction and feature films of th...

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