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

byElizabeth Samet

Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. Looking for the Good War combines archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of history and literary criticism, Looking for the Good War explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter.

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

368

ISBN

9780374219925