Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War

by W.D. Ehrhart

Overview

From 1969 to 1974 Ehrhart was just Passing Time. His reentry into the "world" began with his enrollment as a 21-year-old freshman (and token Vietnam vet) at Swarthmore College. At first simply trying to bury his past, Ehrhart slowly if inexorably came to understand what happened to him, and why, in Vietnam. Interspersed are flash-backs to the war itself.

It is the story of political--and personal--awakening. As the war dragged on, the United States' deceitful involvement and its perpetuation of fallacies and lies about the war's conduct forced Ehrhart to confront his own feelings about his government, country, and self. Throughout, the reader shares with Ehrhart his odyssey through naivete, growing awareness, angry withdrawal and, finally, a measure of peace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786487585
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	01/20/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	291
File size:	584 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Memoirist, poet, editor, and Marine veteran, W.D. Ehrhart taught English and history at the Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania. The author of twenty books, his prose and poetry have appeared in hundreds of publications including the Los Angeles Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Utne Reader, Reader’s Digest, American Poetry Review and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He was a major presence in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War.
Memoirist, poet, editor, and Marine veteran W.D. Ehrhart taught English and history at the Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania. The author of twenty books, his prose and poetry have appeared in hundreds of publications including the Los Angeles Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Utne Reader, Reader's Digest, American Poetry Review and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He was a major presence in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War.

Editorial Reviews

As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature”—John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University; “one of the great poets and writers of nonfiction produced by the Vietnam War”—The Nation; “thoughtful and probing...a must”—Choice; “possibly the greatest and most valuable of all the [Vietnam War] autobiographies...should be required reading”—H. Bruce Franklin, Rutgers; “full of honest and personal accounts”—Fellowship.

From the Publisher

one of the great poets and writers of nonfiction produced by the Vietnam War

The Nation

As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature

curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University - John Newman

thoughtful and probing...a must

Choice