History wars : the Enola Gay and other battles for the American past / edited by Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt.
Linenthal, Edward Tabor, 1947-; Engelhardt, Tom, 1944-
1996
E840.4 .H57 1996 (Mapit)
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Title History wars : the Enola Gay and other battles for the American past / edited by Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780805043877 paperback alkaline paper
080504387X paperback alkaline paper
9780805043860 hardcover alkaline paper
0805043861 hardcover alkaline paper
Imprint New York : Metropolitan Books, 1996.
Language English
Description vi, 295 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number E840.4 .H57 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.54/25
Summary From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics.
Note From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-291).
Added Author Linenthal, Edward Tabor, 1947-
Engelhardt, Tom, 1944-
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Introduction : history under siege / Tom Engelhardt and Edward T. Linenthal
Anatomy of a controversy / Edward T. Linenthal
Three narratives of our humanity / John W. Dower
Patriotic orthodoxy and American decline / Michael S. Sherry
Whose history is it anyway? Memory, politics, and historical scholarship / Paul Boyer
History at risk : the case of the Enola Gay / Richard H. Kohn
Culture war, history front / Mike Wallace
Dangerous history : Vietnam and the "good war" / Marilyn B. Young
The victors and the vanquished / Tom Engelhardt.

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