Home Fronts - A Wartime America Reader (Paperback, New)

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

General

Imprint:	The New Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2008
First published:	October 2008
Editors:	Michael S Foley • Brendan P. O'Malley
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	656
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-59558-014-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-59558-014-X
Barcode:	9781595580146

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