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100	1		_aBodnar, John E., _d1944- _eauthor.
245	1	5	_aThe "Good War" in American memory / _cJohn Bodnar.
264		1	_aBaltimore : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (320 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aWartime -- Soldiers write the war -- "No place for weaklings" -- Monuments and mourning -- The split screen -- The outsiders -- The victors -- Conclusion -- Postscript on Iraq.
520	1		_a"2003 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice." "An uncommonly well balanced account of the political biases of American movies ... A fine read for the generalist yet a scholarly achievement."---Choice. "You cannot but be seduced and even sometimes bedazzled by Bodnar's clear, well-informed and impartial analysis."---Cercles. "Bodnar provides a useful provocation. He asks us to think imaginatively about the subtle and complex ways movies communicate ideas and attitudes."---Journal of American History. "Open minded and even handed, he appreciates the nuances and mixed messages of Hollywood cinema."---American Historical Review. "The "Good War" in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodnar's sociocultural examination of the vast public debate that took place in the United States over the war's meaning reveals that the idea of the "good war" was highly contested." "Bodnar's comprehensive study of the disagreements that marked the American remembrance of World War II in the six decades following its end draws on an array of sources: fiction and nonfiction, movies, theater, and public monuments. He identifies alternative strands of memory---tragic and brutal versus heroic and virtuous---and reconstructs controversies involving veterans, minorities, and memorials. In building this narrative, Bodnar shows how the idealism of President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms was lost in the public commemoration of World War II, how the war's memory became intertwined in the larger discussion over American national identity, and how it only came to be known as the "good war" many years after its conclusion."--BOOK JACKET.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCollective memory _zUnited States.
650		0	_aMemory _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWar and society _zUnited States.
650		0	_aNational characteristics, American.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aBodnar, John E. _t"Good War" in American memory. _dBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010 _hx, 299 pages ; 24 cm _z9780801896675 _w(OCoLC)ocn490811336
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/kliuc/Doc?id=11161084 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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