Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
vi, 295 p. ; 21 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-291). |
Contents |
Introduction : history under siege / Tom Engelhardt and Edward T. Linenthal -- Anatomy of a controversy / Edward T. Linenthal -- Three narratives of our humanity / John W. Dower -- Patriotic orthodoxy and American decline / Michael S. Sherry -- Whose history is it anyway? Memory, politics, and historical scholarship / Paul Boyer -- History at risk : the case of the Enola Gay / Richard H. Kohn -- Culture war, history front / Mike Wallace -- Dangerous history : Vietnam and the "good war" / Marilyn B. Young -- The victors and the vanquished / Tom Engelhardt. |
Summary |
From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics. |
Subject |
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century -- Historiography.
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Historiography.
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Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Historiography.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Historiography.
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Enola Gay (Bomber)
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Added Author |
Linenthal, Edward Tabor, 1947-
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Engelhardt, Tom, 1944-
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ISBN |
080504387X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780805043877 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0805043861 (hard : alk. paper) |
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9780805043860 (hard : alk. paper) |
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