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Looking for the Good War

American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness

Elizabeth D. Samet

2021

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Book Review

Destructive Myths

Romanticized stories about the Second World War are at the heart of American exceptionalism.

by Jeff Faux via Dissent on August 30, 2022
Q&A

Why World War II Wasn’t All That Good.

West Point scholar argues ‘hazy, rosy’ myth shaped false sense of U.S. destiny.

by Elizabeth D. Samet, Liz Mineo via Harvard Gazette on January 25, 2022
Book Review

The Cost of Sentimentalizing War

Has the American myth of the Good War helped ensnare us in bad ones?

by Carlos Lozada via The New Yorker
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on November 17, 2021

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A New History of World War II

A new book argues that the conflict was a battle for empire.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The Atlantic on April 4, 2022

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