TY  - BOOK
AU  - Samet,Elizabeth D.
TI  - Looking for the good war: American amnesia and the violent pursuit of happiness 
SN  - 0374219923
AV  - D744.7 .U6 S264 2021
U1  - 940.53/73 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - United States
KW  - Memory
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - War and society
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Influence
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Prologue: Is This Trip Really Necessary? -- Introduction: One War at a Time -- 1. Age of Gold -- 2. Dead-Shot American Cowboys -- 3. Thieves Like Us -- 4. "War, What Is It Good For?" -- 5. Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels -- Epilogue: Age of Iron
N2  - "From the acclaimed author of No Man's Land and Soldier's Heart, a wide-ranging work of cultural history and criticism that reexamines the impact of post-World War II myths of the "good war.""--
ER  -