Umfang:
ix, 315 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
25 cm
ISBN:
9781978800915
,
9781978801202
Serie:
War culture
Inhalt:
"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"--
Inhalt:
The last victory? -- The bombs bursting in air, or, how we lost World War II -- New connections -- Working for communists during the Korean War -- On the water front -- Thirteen confessions of a Cold Warrior -- Wake up time -- Burning illusions -- French connections -- Coming home -- The war comes home
Anmerkung:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781978800922
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781978800946
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781978800939
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Politologie
Schlagwort(e):
USA
;
Krieg
;
Gesellschaft
;
Protestbewegung
;
Geschichte 1945-1975
