History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past - Softcover

Linenthal, Edward Tabor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080504387X ISBN 13: 9780805043877

Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL, 2000

Synopsis

From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics. What kind of history Americans should read, see, or fund is no longer merely a matter of professional interest to teachers, historians, and museum curators. Everywhere now, history is increasingly being held hostage, but to what end and why? In History Wars, eight prominent historians consider the angry swirl of emotions that now surrounds public memory. Included are trenchant essays by Paul Boyer, John W. Dower, Tom Engelhardt, Richard H. Kohn, Edward Linenthal, Micahel S. Sherry, Marilyn B. Young, and Mike Wallace.

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Review:

"In their illuminating explorations of contemporary American struggles with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these essays contribute to much-needed nuclear-age wisdom." --Robert Jay Lifton

"Informative and compelling." --Eric Foner

"A stimulating and revelatory work." --Studs Terkel

About the Author:

Edward T. Linenthal is Edward M. Penson Professor of Religion and American Culture at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He is the author of Sacred Ground Americans and Their Battlefields and Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 080504387X
• ISBN 13: 9780805043877
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302
• Editor: Englehardt Tom, Linethal Edward T.