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Home Fronts - A Wartime America Reader (Paperback, New)
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Home Fronts - A Wartime America Reader (Paperback, New)
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An illuminating documentary history that reveals the effects of
U.S. military ventures overseas on more than a century of American
life at home.
"Who are the heroes that fight your war?
Mothers who have no say.
But my duty's done so for God's sake leave one
And don't take my darling boy away."
--antiwar song circa 1916
The United States has been at war for seventy of the past one
hundred years. And even as American soldiers have fought overseas,
war has profoundly influenced almost every aspect of American
society on the home front--as this startling collection of wartime
letters, song lyrics, poems, editorial cartoons, newspaper
articles, leaflets, and government documents (from the
Spanish-American War and World War I to the Vietnam War, the
Persian Gulf War, and the war in Iraq) reveals.
"Home Fronts" offers a vivid cross-section of American
intellectual, political, and cultural life in wartime over the past
century. Here are brief excerpts--set into historical context with
concise introductions--from the most important work by intellectual
luminaries, political activists, poets, songwriters, and
presidents.
Across the rich variety of social commentary, political critique,
and artistic expression--which covers the full spectrum from
pro-war to peacenik--"Home Fronts" brings into sharp focus the
startling continuities and revealing contrasts between past and
present wartime experiences. A major historical resource, "Home
Fronts" will also be an important intellectual tool for anyone
contemplating the impact of war in our own time.
Includes the words of:
- William Jennings Bryan
- Emma Goldman
- Eugene V. Debs
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- CharlesLindbergh
- David Dellinger
- Ring Lardner Jr.
- John Steinbeck
- Dwight Macdonald
- Thomas Merton
- John Hope Franklin
- Muhammad Ali
- Noam Chomsky
- Daniel Berrigan
- Herbert Marcuse
- Marvin Gaye
- J. Anthony Lukas
- Richard Nixon
- Denise Levertov
- The Dead Kennedys
- Sydney Schanberg
- George Packer
- Christopher Hitchens
- Charles Simic
- and many others
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