Tales of the Great American Victory: World War II in Politics and PoeticsDiederik Oostdijk, Markha G. Valenta Exploring topics such as poetry, politics, and cultures of war, this collection of 16 essays tells alternative, contradictory, and complicated stories about World War II, demonstrating that the United States was not always a champion of liberty and justice as some would like the general public to believe. |
Contents
America versus Europe | 13 |
CounterMemory in American Poetry | 19 |
Steven Gould Axelrod | 37 |
Copyright | |
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