Crash course : from the good war to the forever war /
Growing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told, that America's victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the United States, forcing the nation into a disa...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | War culture.
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| Summary: | Growing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told, that America's victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the United States, forcing the nation into a disastrous war in Korea. But once he joined the U.S. Air Force and began flying top-secret missions as a navigator and intelligence officer, what he learned was eye-opening, that even as the United States preached about peace and freedom, it was engaging in an endless cycle of warfare, bringing devastation and oppression to fledgling democracies across the globe. Now, after fifty years as a renowned cultural historian, Franklin offers a set of hard-learned lessons about modern American history. Crash Course is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up where it is today, with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government and mired in unwinnable wars. It also finds startling parallels between America's foreign military exploits and the equally brutal tactics used on the home front to crush organized labor, antiwar and civil rights movements. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781978800915 1978800916 9781978801202 1978801203 |