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

by Elizabeth D. Samet

Book Overview

"A remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war." --Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post

In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374219923
• ISBN13: 9780374219925
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.4"