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World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier - A Rhetorical History (Paperback)
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World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier - A Rhetorical History (Paperback)
Series: Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
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World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier: A
Rhetorical History examines the United States government's postwar
ideological and rhetorical project in establishing permanent
national military cemeteries abroad. Constructed throughout Europe
where citizen-soldiers had fought and perished, and sacralized as
American sites, these burial grounds simultaneously linked the
nation's war dead back to American soil and the national purpose
rooted there, expressed the nation's emerging prominent role on the
world's stage, and advanced the burgeoning icon of the
"sacrificial, universal" US soldier. It draws upon untapped
archival and historical materials from the WWI and interwar
periods, as well as original on-site research, to show how the
cemeteries came to display and advance the vision of the modern US
soldier as "a global force for good." Ultimately, within the visual
display of overseas cemeteries we can detect the birth of "the
modern US soldier"-a potent icon in which divergent emotions,
memories, beliefs, and arguments of Americans and non-Americans
have been expressed for a century.
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