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Why We Fought
Forging American Obligations in World War II
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Artikel-Nr:
9781588342959
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
06.07.2010
Seiten:
166
Autor:
Robert B Westbrook
Gewicht:
249 g
Format:
229x152x10 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Robert B. Westbrook, author of the highly acclaimed John Dewey and the American Democracy, teaches American history at the University of Rochester. He lives in Brockport, New York.
Why We Fought is a timely and provocative analysis that examines why Americans really chose to sacrifice and commit themselves to World War II. Unlike other depictions of the patriotic "greatest generation," Westbrook argues that, strictly speaking, Americans in World War II were not instructed to fight, work, or die for their country--above all, they were moved by private obligations. Finding political theory in places such as pin-ups of Betty Grable, he contends that more often than not Americans were urged to wage war as fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, lovers, sons, daughters, and consumers, not as citizens. The thinness of their own citizenship contrasted sharply with the thicker political culture of the Japanese, which was regarded with condescending contempt and even occasionally wistful respect.