Home Fronts: A Wartime America Reader - Softcover

Foley; Michael S.; O'Malley; Brendan P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159558014X ISBN 13: 9781595580146

Publisher: THE NEW PRESS, 2008

Synopsis

The US has been at war for 70 of the past 100 years. This startling collection of wartime letters, songs, poems, editorial cartoons, newspaper articles and government documents reveals the profound influence war has had on the country. Home Fronts offers a vivid cross-section of American intellectual, political and cultural life over the past century. Across the rich variety of social commentary, political critique and artistic expression, this title brings into sharp focus the startling continuities and contrasts of these experiences.

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Unusual book

Review

This is a compilation of writings on war, conscription, and social control by dozens of 20th-century figures across politics, art, ethics, and social commentary. The organization by war (including the Cold War) gives us Emma Goldman and W.E.B. DuBois contrasted with the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-18; and Howard Fast and Joseph McCarthy side by side in the Cold War section. Vietnam, Desert Storm, and the second Iraq War have their own sections, featuring antiwar activists and official pronouncements from the administration in office. This is a useful handbook covering many shades of public opinion but generally on the left in orientation. An interesting and valuable collection for public and college libraries.

Edition details

• Publisher: THE NEW PRESS
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159558014X
• ISBN 13: 9781595580146
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Michael Foley, Brendan O'Malley