@article{845238,
      author = {Franklin, H. Bruce},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/845238},
      title = {Crash course : from the good war to the forever war /},
      abstract = {"How did the mightiest nation in the history of the planet  end up forever fighting unwinnable wars under a  dysfunctional government despised by an increasingly  divided citizenry? To help make sense of this crash course,  Bruce Franklin offers another kind of crash course, a  personal odyssey through modern American history. Readers  are plunged into history, partly by reliving some of the  author's experience and evolving consciousness: born in the  Depression, molded by the victory culture of World War II,  acculturated into the anti-Communist frenzy of early  postwar years, employed by Communists during the Korean  War, plunged into class warfare while working on the New  York waterfront, flying as a Strategic Air Command Arctic  navigator and intelligence officer, becoming a leading  anti-war and progressive activist and thus a target of  COINTELPRO, and emerging as a trailblazing cultural  historian. The main subject is America's wars, abroad  against nations and peoples in every continent except  Australia, at home along racial and class lines. By  bringing multi-disciplinary knowledge and cutting-edge  analysis to the forces that shaped and reshaped one  American for eight decades, each chapter offers compelling  and eye-opening reading to 21st-century Americans"--},
      recid = {845238},
      pages = {ix, 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :},
}