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Extensively researched, painstakingly documented, and dedicated to
the courageous men and women who fought and served in the First War
with Iraq, this is a factual military history of Operation Desert
Storm-and the only readable and thorough chronicle of the entire
war. From the first night of battle to Day Two, when Saddam struck
back, to G Day and the eventual cease-fire, accomplished military
historian Richard S. Lowry delivers a detailed, day-by-day account
of each battle and every military encounter leading up to the
liberation of Kuwait. Desert Storm was a war of many firsts:
America's first four-dimensional war; the first time in military
history that a submerged submarine attacked a land target; the
Marine Corps' first combat air strikes from an amphibious assault
ship; the first time in the history of warfare that a soldier
surrendered to a robot; and more. And it was an overwhelming
victory for the United States and its allies. Intentionally
presented without political commentary and ending with a complete
listing of the heroic Americans killed in Desert Storm as well as a
battle timeline, glossary, bibliography, and resources, "The Gulf
War Chronicles" provides a much-needed understanding of the nature
of modern-day, high-tech warfare and honors America's collective
resolve and commitment to freedom.
A self-styled "American vandal" who pursued literary celebrity with
"a mercenary eye" even as genteel America proclaimed him the
American Rabelais, Samuel Clemens, as Mark Twain, straddled the
conflicts between culture and commerce that characterized the era
he named the Gilded Age. In "Littery Man", Richard Lowry examines
how Twain used these conflicts in his major texts to fashion an
"autobiography of authorship", a narrative of his own claims to
literary authority at that moment when the American Writer emerged
as a profession. Drawing on a wide range of cultural genres -
popular boys' fiction, childrearing manuals, travel narratives,
autobiography, and criticism and fiction of the period - Lowry
reconstructs how Twain participated in remaking the "literary" into
a powerful social category of representation. He shows how, as one
of our culture's first modern celebrities, Samuel Clemens
transformed his life into the artful performance we have come to
know as Mark Twain, and his texts into a searching critique of
modern identity in a mass-mediated society. "Littery Man" will
appeal to both Twain scholars and to scholars and students of
nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
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