The "Good War" in American memory [electronic resource] / John Bodnar.
Bodnar, John E., 1944- author.
2010
D744.7.U6 B635 2010eb
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Title The "Good War" in American memory [electronic resource] / John Bodnar.
Author Bodnar, John E., 1944- author.
ISBN 9780801896675
0801896673
9781421400020 (electronic book)
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations
Call Number D744.7.U6 B635 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.53/73
Summary "2003 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice." "An uncommonly well balanced account of the political biases of American movies ... A fine read for the generalist yet a scholarly achievement."---Choice. "You cannot but be seduced and even sometimes bedazzled by Bodnar's clear, well-informed and impartial analysis."---Cercles. "Bodnar provides a useful provocation. He asks us to think imaginatively about the subtle and complex ways movies communicate ideas and attitudes."---Journal of American History. "Open minded and even handed, he appreciates the nuances and mixed messages of Hollywood cinema."---American Historical Review. "The "Good War" in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodnar's sociocultural examination of the vast public debate that took place in the United States over the war's meaning reveals that the idea of the "good war" was highly contested." "Bodnar's comprehensive study of the disagreements that marked the American remembrance of World War II in the six decades following its end draws on an array of sources: fiction and nonfiction, movies, theater, and public monuments. He identifies alternative strands of memory---tragic and brutal versus heroic and virtuous---and reconstructs controversies involving veterans, minorities, and memorials. In building this narrative, Bodnar shows how the idealism of President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms was lost in the public commemoration of World War II, how the war's memory became intertwined in the larger discussion over American national identity, and how it only came to be known as the "good war" many years after its conclusion."--BOOK JACKET.
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Wartime
Soldiers write the war
"No place for weaklings"
Monuments and mourning
The split screen
The outsiders
The victors
Conclusion
Postscript on Iraq.

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