Saving Private Power: The Hidden History of "the Good War"

Michael Zezima

ISBN 10: 188712845X / ISBN 13: 9781887128452

Published by Soft Skull Pr, 2000

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214 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Saving Private Power: The Hidden History of "the Good War"
• Publisher: Soft Skull Pr
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 188712845X
• ISBN 13: 9781887128452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.41 kilograms

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Synopsis

Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic umptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business cl traded with and Mussolini up to and even during the war. Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh's public philia were symbolic of big business's admiration for 's anticommunism.
Using techniques gleaned from modern advertising, the U.S. Office of War Information injected anti-Japanese bloodlust and hysteria into the population. When the U.S. killed 672,000 Japanese through indiscriminate bombing, even Secretary of War Henry Stimson wondered why "there has never been a protest over...such extraordinarily heavy loss of life. There is something wrong with a country where no one questions that".
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation are ing in on the revived interest in World War II. But time's up for the trafficers of cheap nostalgia. The media elite have sold us the myth about the U.S.'s noble role in the "Good War" for too long and the facade is beginning to crack. The recent release of John Cornwell's 's Pope is only the beginning. Saving Private Power digs deeper, to find the truth about the this war and the world it left in its wake.

Synopsis

The media elite have sold the myth about the US's noble role in the Good War for too long and the facade is beginning to crack. The US did not enter WWII to end the holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. Saving Private Power exposes the scandals that the US government wanted to remain hidden.