{"product_id":"looking-for-the-good-war-9781250859082","title":"Looking for the Good War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging work of cultural history and criticism that reexamines the impact of postWorld War II myths of the good war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssential reading. This eloquent, far-ranging analysis of the national psyche goes as far as any book I've ever read toward explaining the peculiar American yen for war and more war. Ben Fountain, author of \u003ci\u003eBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Beautiful Country Burn Again\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLooking for the Good War\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth D. Samet examines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veteransa history that was suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States' supposedly excep\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528998592855,"sku":"9781250859082","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250859082.jpg?v=1731873889","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/looking-for-the-good-war-9781250859082","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}