"This is not a book to promote tranquility, and readers in quest of peace of mind should look elsewhere," writes Paul Fussell in the foreword to this original,

Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who liv

"Writings on the denial of history and the Smithsonian controversy"--Cover.

This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.

Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Me