A noted historian examines the impact of culture and politics on the wartime attitudes and experiences of Americans and their expectations concerning the postwa

“A remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war.” —Robert G. Kaiser, Th

The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is t

This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the Uni

This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since the First Wo