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History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past

By Edward Tabor Linenthal , Tom Engelhardt

Book information

Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Year
1996
ISBN
080504387X, 9780805043877
LCC
E840.4 .H57 1996
Open Library ID
OL23262473M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
355 kB (363938 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
295\0
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

From the “taming of the West” to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics. What kind of history Americans should read, see, or fund is no longer merely a matter of professional interest to teachers, historians, and museum curators. Everywhere now, history is increasingly being held hostage, but to what end and why? In History Wars, eight prominent historians consider the angry swirl of emotions that now surrounds public memory. Included are trenchant essays by Paul Boyer, John W. Dower, Tom Engelhardt, Richard H. Kohn, Edward Linenthal, Micahel S. Sherry, Marilyn B. Young, and Mike Wallace.

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