Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
Ebook334 pages5 hours
War and American Life: Reflections on Those Who Serve and Sacrifice
By James Wright
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
An engaging collection of essays focusing on American veterans.
War and American Life is a book of essays and reflections by celebrated historian and former marine James Wright, who has been active as an advocate, teacher, and scholar. Featuring both previously published pieces and new essays, the book considers veterans in America and the ways in which our society needs better to understand who they are and what they have done on the nation’s behalf—and the responsibilities that follow this recognition.
Read more from James Wright
The Branch Will Not Break Collected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Branch Will Not Break: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Resurrected: The True Story of a Modern-Day Miracle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPortage Township Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsForever New: The Speeches of James Wright, President of Dartmouth College, 1998–2009 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReal Men DO Eat Quiche: A Hockey Heathen's Guide to a Great Post Skate Breakfast Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEnduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAd Infinitum Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to War and American Life
Related ebooks
Michigan Civil War Landmarks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReflections of a Soldier Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSouthern Cultures: Remembering the Civil War Issue: Volume 19: Number 3 � Fall 2013 Issue Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWar! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American War Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNoble Tragedy: Understanding Vietnam in the 21st Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWild Blue Ponders: War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNew Hampshire War Monuments: The Stories Behind the Stones Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A People's History of the U.S. Military Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5LIFE The Vietnam Wars: 50 Years Ago--Two Countries Torn Apart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Answered the Call: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLetters to the Wall: Memorial Day Events 2015 and 2016 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSix Degrees of the Bracelet: Vietnam’s Continuing Grip Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ganson Street Tigers Go to War: A Western New York Community's Commitment to Winning World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5THE BEST VIEWS OF HEAVEN Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Struggle for Equality: Essays on Sectional Conflict, the Civil War, and the Long Reconstruction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNew Men: Reconstructing the Image of the Veteran in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCourageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5No One Has More Love Than This...: Why We Remember Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Columbia History of the Vietnam War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 25-Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe First Mistake: America In Vietnam, 1945-1954 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMonuments and Memory-Making: The Debate over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1981-1982 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerica's War in Vietnam: A Short Narrative History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twice-Divided Nation: National Memory, Transatlantic News, and American Literature in the Civil War Era Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Story of a Confederate Boy in the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Wars & Military For You
Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The History of the Peloponnesian War: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of The 33 Strategies of War: by Robert Greene - A Comprehensive Summary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/577 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Racial Conflict in the U.S. Army During the Vietnam War Era 0% found this document usefulThe Tet Offensive: Turning Point of the Vietnam War? 0% found this document usefulThe Red Summer of 1919 & Black Resistance 0% found this document usefulBlack Soldiers & their Families in the Civil War 0% found this document usefulEPISODE 51 A Life for a Whistle: Emmett Till and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement 0% found this document usefulE89 - Newman's Own Israel w/ Eric Alterman 0% found this document usefulRemembrance Day 2021: Canada in the Korean War & Family Stories 0% found this document useful[RERUN] EPISODE 51 A Life for a Whistle: Emmett Till and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement 0% found this document usefulReconstruction Era | From the Ashes of War | 1 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Moral Courage and the Civil War The American ScholarArticle
Moral Courage and the Civil War
Sep 3, 2019
17 min readWar Controversies VietnamArticle
War Controversies
Oct 6, 2020
5 min readAnother Round in the Battle Over Vietnam Los Angeles TimesArticle
Another Round in the Battle Over Vietnam
Sep 5, 2017
There are two Vietnam wars, and the second is still going 40 years after the first ended. The United States fought the first one from 1959 to 1975 in the jungles, villages and airspace of Indochina. The second is the war over how that war, the first
4 min readMy Lai’s Ghostly Footprints VietnamArticle
My Lai’s Ghostly Footprints
Feb 5, 2019
4 min readCommentary: Why L.A. County’s ‘Jane Fonda Day’ Declaration Was So Astoundingly Insensitive Los Angeles TimesArticle
Commentary: Why L.A. County’s ‘Jane Fonda Day’ Declaration Was So Astoundingly Insensitive
May 14, 2024
2 min readMcCain’s Mutiny Against War Bitterness The Christian Science MonitorArticle
McCain’s Mutiny Against War Bitterness
Aug 27, 2018
Of all his admirable traits, it was the former POW’s forgiveness toward Vietnam that helped reconcile the US to its former adversary.
2 min readCaring About The Civil War Civil War TimesArticle
Caring About The Civil War
Nov 26, 2019
4 min readTime Of Despair Civil War TimesArticle
Time Of Despair
Jan 21, 2020
4 min readEditorial: 'Every Day Is Memorial Day': A Lifetime Of Grief For A Soldier's Son Chicago TribuneArticle
Editorial: 'Every Day Is Memorial Day': A Lifetime Of Grief For A Soldier's Son
May 25, 2018
There's a heroic tale to tell about the Korean War service and sacrifice of Army Maj. Charles A. Newman, a tank commander from Glenview who led an assault on Chinese forces in May 1951. The story, appropriate for Memorial Day, involves bravery under
3 min readChickenhawk in Chief The AtlanticArticle
Chickenhawk in Chief
Aug 8, 2017
3 min read‘Carnage Infernal’ America's Civil WarArticle
‘Carnage Infernal’
Oct 4, 2022
8 min readWhy D-day Matters The Saturday Evening PostArticle
Why D-day Matters
May 1, 2019
5 min readDrawing On History World War IIArticle
Drawing On History
Jun 4, 2019
6 min readWhy American Soldiers Were On Front Lines Of Anti-Vietnam-war Movement Post MagazineArticle
Why American Soldiers Were On Front Lines Of Anti-Vietnam-war Movement
Apr 14, 2018
13 min readHow the Vietnam War Changed Political Poetry Literary HubArticle
How the Vietnam War Changed Political Poetry
Nov 20, 2019
11 min read'The Battle Hymn of the Republic': America's Song of Itself The AtlanticArticle
'The Battle Hymn of the Republic': America's Song of Itself
Nov 4, 2010
The anthem, first published in The Atlantic Monthly 150 years ago, mirrors how the country feels about war
8 min readAfter The Fighting Civil War TimesArticle
After The Fighting
Nov 17, 2020
1 min readJamaica, Fourth of July, 1970 Manhattan InstituteArticle
Jamaica, Fourth of July, 1970
Jul 3, 2020
3 min readVeteran’s Book Shows Importance Of Vietnam Memoirs VietnamArticle
Veteran’s Book Shows Importance Of Vietnam Memoirs
Mar 1, 2022
3 min readGettysburg: Profiles in Courage Manhattan InstituteArticle
Gettysburg: Profiles in Courage
Jul 1, 2020
4 min readMail Back From The Deep World War IIArticle
Mail Back From The Deep
Aug 9, 2022
6 min readInto the Void Mother JonesArticle
Into the Void
Oct 1, 2017
5 min readRobin Abcarian: Don't Denigrate Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests By Claiming The Vietnam War Protests Backfired Los Angeles TimesArticle
Robin Abcarian: Don't Denigrate Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests By Claiming The Vietnam War Protests Backfired
May 7, 2024
3 min readTaps After Dinner Conversation: PhilosophyArticle
Taps
Jul 10, 2021
I am alone, standing on the crumbling back steps of the old church, my trumpet by my side in my right hand. The church cemetery, dotted with countless rows of neatly arranged headstones, descends gradually towards the slate grey sea. It is a raw blus
17 min readSacrifice, Reconciliation, Hope: Readers Reflect On Memorial Day The Christian Science MonitorArticle
Sacrifice, Reconciliation, Hope: Readers Reflect On Memorial Day
May 21, 2020
This year for Memorial Day, Monitor readers submitted stories of military members who changed their lives. Here is a selection of their offerings.
4 min readMany Tales To Tell America's Civil WarArticle
Many Tales To Tell
Oct 23, 2018
“What a history we have made, what a school for young men, what a noble thought that you have served your country and offered your life,” Lieutenant John Mead Gould penned in his journal on May 8, 1863—the day the 10th Maine Infantry’s Civil War serv
2 min readThe Forever Soldiers of the Forever Wars Men's HealthArticle
The Forever Soldiers of the Forever Wars
Aug 5, 2021
3 min readThe Confederate General Whom All the Other Confederates Hated The AtlanticArticle
The Confederate General Whom All the Other Confederates Hated
Nov 13, 2023
12 min readA Nuanced And Complex War American HistoryArticle
A Nuanced And Complex War
Sep 24, 2019
3 min readWhat Trump's Generation Learned About the Civil War The AtlanticArticle
What Trump's Generation Learned About the Civil War
Aug 28, 2017
8 min read
Reviews for War and American Life
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
War and American Life - James Wright
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1