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Made Love, Got War Close Encounters with America's Warfare State
By Norman Solomon
Copyright 2008
264 Pages
by
Routledge
First published in 2008. The strands of this book form a unique weave of personal narrative and historical inquiry. Made Love, Got War lays out a half century of socialized insanity that has brought a succession of aggressive wars under cover of—but at recurrent risk of detonating—a genocidal nuclear arsenal.
1 Cold War Childhood 2 Innocence on the Eve of Destruction 3 Revulsion and Revolt 4 To the Moon and to Woodstock 5 War on the Home Front 6 Regrouping in the ’70s 7 Agencies of Annihilation 8 Cold War Sequel 9 Slick Torch 10 Greased Path to Iraq 11 War to the Horizon 12 Meanwhile, Back at the Nuclear Ranch 13 Obstinate Memory 14 Consequences and Truths
Biography
Solomon, Norman
“Norman’s eyewitness descriptions of key events are a perfect backdrop to his critique of our country’s increasingly militaristic development of the science of death and of the media’s failure to question. We should all heed his call to activism, or our children’s future could be in doubt.”
– Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey
“Here is a book with a thousand memories for those of us who came of political age while living through urban riots, the Vietnam War, and the Nixon years. Norman Solomon, one of America’s most respected progressive voices, gets personal in this account of living through the age of Vietnam, Nixon, tie-dye T-shirts, girlfriends, and even the music that will forever waft through the minds of those of us who were there. Those of us who, like journalist Solomon, will never forget.”
– Phil Donahue
Review in the Austin Chronicle: http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2007-10-26/554310/
Review in BlogCritics.org: http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-made-love-got-war/
A review also appeared in The Oregonian
