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Nov 29, 2021 · Toward the end of “Looking for the Good War,” Elizabeth D. Samet’s discerning new book about the gauzy mythology that has shrouded the historical reality of World War II, she reminds us...
Dec 7, 2021 · ‘Looking for the Good War” is a remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words some 350 pages later. It is a stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war, written ...
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Aug 13, 2022 · Five sizable chapters follow, each of which eviscerates some aspect of America’s triumphalist World War II-based popular culture in favor of the seamy, unappealing underside of distorted propaganda, moral dilemmas, misogyny, wanton misbehavior, Jim Crow racism and veterans’ postwar struggles.
Dec 1, 2021 · In her magisterial new book, “Looking for the Good War,” Elizabeth Samet, a professor of English at West Point, finds answers in the same historical wellspring that Bush tapped into: our...
Feb 22, 2022 · Mythmaking about World War II blossomed around the war’s 50th anniversary and after the end of the Cold War. Samet’s treatment of the works of the historian Stephen Ambrose and the journalist Tom Brokaw and, to a lesser degree, Steven Spielberg’s Hollywood epic Saving Private Ryan is devastating.
Nov 30, 2021 · LOOKING FOR THE GOOD WAR AMERICAN AMNESIA AND THE VIOLENT PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. by Elizabeth D. Samet ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 30, 2021. A cogent analysis of the cultural realities of war.
Nov 30, 2021 · 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 life.
