Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness

Looking for the Good War

American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness

By
Elizabeth D. Samet
Elizabeth D. Samet
2021 • 368 pages

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29 books

History

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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Last Days of the Incas
The Great Divergence
Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History & What They Reveal About the Future
Transgender History
Wewere not the savages

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11 books

Politics

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Who Gets Believed?
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
The World Turned Upside Down
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
Glory
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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205 books

History

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Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
1776
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
Band of Brothers
Cadillac Desert: The American West And Its Disappearing Water
California: A History

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21 books

Philosophy

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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
The Big Picture
Meditations
Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Assholes: A Theory
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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48 books

World War 2

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Night Witches
The night crossing
Making Bombs for Hitler
The Valley of Lost Secrets
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi
Don't You Know There's a War On?

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Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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146 books

American Studies

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Fat Shame
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America
The Second Founding
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

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22 books

American Civil Religion

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Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine
Bait and Switch
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
The Cult of the Constitution
Myth America
Lies across America
We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom