Remembering War the American Way
Piehler, who is an archivist and oral historian, undertakes to document how each of America's wars has been memorialized in monuments, cemeteries, holidays, and fraternal groups. The emphasis is definitely on the tangible; film, video, music, and literature are barely mentioned. The accounts of the social and political disagreements over the purpose and form of public remembrance synthesize a great deal of heretofore scattered or inaccessible information and will attract scholars, but more attention to popular culture would have enhanced the book for both researcher and general reader. An optional purchase for academic libraries.Fritz Buckallew, Univ. of Central Oklahoma Lib., EdmondCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.