1st Edition
Myth and the Greatest Generation A Social History of Americans in World War II
By Kenneth Rose
Copyright 2008
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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Myth and the Greatest Generation calls into question the glowing paradigm of the World War II generation set up by such books as The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw.
Including analysis of news reports, memoirs, novels, films and other cultural artefacts Ken Rose shows the war was much more disruptive to the lives of Americans in the military and on the home front during World War II... Read more
Introduction Part 1: Americans Abroad Part 2: Americans at Home Part 3: Americans and the Culture of World War II Part 4: Americans and the End of the Bad War
Biography
Kenneth D. Rose is Lecturer of twentieth-century American and social history at California State University, Chico. He is the author of One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture and American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition.
