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Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
"The first book-length account of a story too long
overlooked"
Claro Solis wanted to win a gold star for his mother. He
succeeded--as did seven other sons of "Little Mexico."
Second Street in Silvis, Illinois, was a poor neighborhood
during the Great Depression that had become home to Mexicans
fleeing revolution in their homeland. In 1971 it was officially
renamed "Hero Street" to commemorate its claim to the highest
per-capita casualty rate from any neighborhood during World War II.
Marc Wilson now tells the story of this community and the young men
it sent to fight for their adopted country.
"Hero Street, U.S.A." is the first book to recount a saga too
long overlooked in histories and television documentaries.
Interweaving family memories, soldiers' letters, historical
photographs, interviews with relatives, and firsthand combat
accounts, Wilson tells the compelling stories of nearly eighty men
from three dozen Second Street homes who volunteered to fight for
their country in World War II and Korea--and of the eight,
including Claro Solis, who never came back.
As debate swirls around the place of Mexican immigrants in
contemporary American society, this book shows the price of
citizenship willingly paid by the sons of earlier refugees. With
"Hero Street, U.S.A.," Marc Wilson not only makes an important
contribution to military and social history but also acknowledges
the efforts of the heroes of Second Street to realize the American
dream.
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High Shining Brass
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Don Lomax, Robert Durant; Illustrated by Don Lomax
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We've all seen the images from Abu Ghraib: stress positions, US
soldiers kneeling on the heads of prisoners, and dehumanizing
pyramids formed from black-hooded bodies. We have watched officials
elected to our highest offices defend enhanced interrogation in
terms of efficacy and justify drone strikes in terms of retribution
and deterrence. But the mainstream secular media rarely addresses
the morality of these choices, leaving us to ask individually: Is
this right? In this singular examination of the American discourse
over war and torture, Douglas V. Porpora, Alexander Nikolaev, Julia
Hagemann May, and Alexander Jenkins investigate the opinion pages
of American newspapers, television commentary, and online
discussion groups to offer the first empirical study of the
national conversation about the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the
revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib a year later.
Post-Ethical Society is not just another shot fired in the ongoing
culture war between conservatives and liberals, but a pensive and
ethically engaged reflection of America's feelings about itself and
our actions as a nation. And while many writers and commentators
have opined about our moral place in the world, the vast amount of
empirical data amassed in Post-Ethical Society sets it apart - and
makes its findings that much more damning.
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