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  • The "Good War" in American Memory

    by John Bodnar ...
    The “Good War” in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodnar's sociocultural examination of the vast public debate that took place in the United States over the war's meaning reveals that the idea of the "good war" was highly contested.Bodnar's comprehensive study of the disagreements that marked the American ... Read more

    $25.39 USD

  • Divided by Terror

    American Patriotism after 9/11

    by John Bodnar ...
    Americans responded to the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, with an outpouring of patriotism, though all were not united in their expression. A war-based patriotism inspired millions of Americans to wave the flag and support a brutal War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, while many other Americans demanded an empathic patriotism that would bear witness to the death and suffering ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Remaking America

    Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century

    by John Bodnar ...
    In a compelling inquiry into public events ranging from the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through ethnic community fairs to pioneer celebrations, John Bodnar explores the stories, ideas, and symbols behind American commemorations over the last century. Such forms of historical consciousness, he argues, do not necessarily preserve the past but rather address serious political matters in ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Blue-Collar Hollywood

    Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film

    by John Bodnar ...
    Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003From Tom Joad to Norma Rae to Spike Lee's Mookie in Do the Right Thing, Hollywood has regularly dramatized the lives and struggles of working people in America. Ranging from idealistic to hopeless, from sympathetic to condescending, these portrayals confronted audiences with the vital economic, social, and political issues of ... Read more

    $25.39 USD

  • Bonds of Affection

    Americans Define Their Patriotism

    Edited by John Bodnar ...
    During the Civil War, Walt Whitman described his admiration for the Union soldiers' loyalty to the ideal of democracy. His argument, that this faith bonded Americans to their nation, has received little critical attention, yet today it raises increasingly relevant questions about American patriotism in the face of growing nationalist sentiment worldwide. Here a group of scholars explores the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream

    Shaping America's Immigration Story

    by Alan M. Kraut, David A. Gerber, Virginia Yans, Deborah Dash Moore, John Bodnar, Barbara M. Posadas, Dominic A. Pacyga, Timothy J. Meagher, Judy Yung0, Eileen H. Tamura1, María Cristina Garcia2, Violet M. Showers Johnson3, Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp4 ...
    Do historians “write their biographies” with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they have made about their own research and writing as scholars. These authors, historians of American immigration and ethnicity, revisited ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Workers' World

    Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900-1940

    by John Bodnar ...
    Series Book 2 - Studies in Industry and Society
    Originally published 1982. Bodnar's central concern in Workers' World is with the working people of Pennsylvania prior to World War II. He examines how ordinary people throughout the state navigated the changing set of industrial relations that fanned out across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since workers could not rely on unionism or government-sponsored ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Divided by Terror

    American Patriotism after 9/11

    by John Bodnar ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 24 min

    Americans responded to the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, with an outpouring of patriotism, though all were not united in their expression. A war-based patriotism inspired millions of Americans to wave the flag and support a brutal War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, while many other Americans demanded an empathic patriotism that would bear witness to the death and suffering ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Working Toward Whiteness

    How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

    by David R. Roediger ...
    How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rethinking Cold War Culture

    by Peter J. Kuznick, James Gilbert ...
    This anthology of essays questions many widespread assumptions about the culture of postwar America. Illuminating the origins and development of the many threads that constituted American culture during the Cold War, the contributors challenge the existence of a monolithic culture during the 1950s and thereafter. They demonstrate instead that there was more to American society than conformity, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The African American Experience during World War II

    by Neil A. Wynn ...
    Series series The African American Experience Series
    Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years were crucial in the development of the emerging Civil Rights movement through the economic and social impact of the war, as well as ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Film Propaganda and American Politics

    An Analysis and Filmography

    by James Combs, Sara T. Combs ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    Originally published in 1994, this important book traces the rise of film propaganda in the 20th Century, discussing specifically how film can be used to manipulate public perception and opinions. Two distinct areas are covered: war propaganda, including feature and documentary films regarding warfare; and civilian propaganda, including films that address a variety of political subjects. Although ... Read more

    $63.99 USD