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Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
On the nature and meaning of war, on its impact on individuals and the nation, Elizabeth D. Samet’s voice is clear, poetic, insightful and necessary. What makes a “noble” war? Or the “greatest” generation? Does it matter? Looking for the Good War makes an eloquent case that it very much does, that it is time we understand the myths we tell ourselves to justify sending soldiers into battle. That Samet teaches literature to cadets at West Point lends a personal, urgent intimacy to her words.
“A remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war.” —Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post
In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines 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 d...
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