Home Fronts: A Wartime America Reader: 0 - Softcover

Foley, Michael S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159558014X ISBN 13: 9781595580146

Verlag: The New Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Home Fronts offers a vivid cross-section of American intellectual, political, and cultural life in wartime over the past century. This work collects brief excerpts, each given historical context through concise introductions.

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Críticas

This is a compilation of writings on war, conscription, and social control by dozens of 20th-century figures across politics, art, ethics, and social commentary. The organization by war (including the Cold War) gives us Emma Goldman and W.E.B. DuBois contrasted with the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-18; and Howard Fast and Joseph McCarthy side by side in the Cold War section. Vietnam, Desert Storm, and the second Iraq War have their own sections, featuring antiwar activists and official pronouncements from the administration in office. This is a useful handbook covering many shades of public opinion but generally on the left in orientation. An interesting and valuable collection for public and college libraries.

Reseña del editor

An extensive collection of wartime letters, song lyrics, poems, editorial cartoons, articles, leaflets, and government documents offers a vivid cross-section of American intellectual, political, and cultural life in wartime over the past century, in a volume that features pieces by such figures as W. E. B. Du Bois, Noam Chomsky, and Richard Nixon. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The New Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 159558014X
• ISBN 13: 9781595580146
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 656
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