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05230aam a2200625 i 4500 001 DC1C2C28E19111E89124B82197128E48 003 SILO 005 20181106010116 008 180730s2018 njuaf b s001 0deng c 010 $a 2018015317 020 $a 1978801203 020 $a 9781978801202 020 $a 1978800916 020 $a 9781978800915 035 $a (OCoLC)1027824789 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d LBSOR $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d FM0 $d RIOSL $d YDX $d BKL $d OCLCO $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E745 $b .F73 2018 082 00 $a 355.00973/0904 $2 23 100 1 $a Franklin, H. Bruce $q (Howard Bruce), $d 1934- $e author. 245 10 $a Crash course : $b from the good war to the forever war / $c H. Bruce Franklin. 264 1 $a New Brunswick, New Jersey : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a ix, 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a War culture 520 $a "Growing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America's victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the United States, forcing the nation into a disastrous war in Korea. But once he joined the U.S. Air Force and began flying top-secret missions as a navigator and intelligence officer, what he learned was eye-opening: that even as the U.S. preached about peace and freedom, it was engaging in an endless cycle of warfare, bringing devastation and oppression to fledgling democracies across the globe. Now, after fifty years as a renowned cultural historian, Franklin offers a set of hard-learned lessons about modern American history. Crash Course is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up where it is today: with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government, and mired in unwinnable wars. It also finds startling parallels between America's foreign military exploits and the equally brutal tactics used on the home front to crush organized labor, antiwar, and civil rights movements."--Dust jacket flap. 520 $a "How did the mightiest nation in the history of the planet end up forever fighting unwinnable wars under a dysfunctional government despised by an increasingly divided citizenry? To help make sense of this crash course, Bruce Franklin offers another kind of crash course, a personal odyssey through modern American history. Readers are plunged into history, partly by reliving some of the author's experience and evolving consciousness: born in the Depression, molded by the victory culture of World War II, acculturated into the anti-Communist frenzy of early postwar years, employed by Communists during the Korean War, plunged into class warfare while working on the New York waterfront, flying as a Strategic Air Command Arctic navigator and intelligence officer, becoming a leading anti-war and progressive activist and thus a target of COINTELPRO, and emerging as a trailblazing cultural historian. The main subject is America's wars, abroad against nations and peoples in every continent except Australia, at home along racial and class lines. By bringing multi-disciplinary knowledge and cutting-edge analysis to the forces that shaped and reshaped one American for eight decades, each chapter offers compelling and eye-opening reading to 21st-century Americans"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-297) and index. 505 0 $a The last victory? -- The bombs bursting in air, or, How we lost World War II -- New connections -- Working for communists during the Korean War -- On the water front -- Thirteen confessions of a Cold Warrior -- Wake-up time -- Burning illusions -- French connections -- Coming home -- The war comes home. 600 10 $a Franklin, H. Bruce $q (Howard Bruce), $d 1934- 600 17 $a Franklin, H. Bruce $q (Howard Bruce), $d 1934- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00052521 611 27 $a Vietnam War (1961-1975) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01431664 651 0 $a United States $x History, Military $y 20th century. 650 0 $a War and society $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Historians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Protest movements. 650 7 $a Historians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00957686 650 7 $a Protest movements. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01079826 650 7 $a War and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170447 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919894 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Military history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411630 830 0 $a War culture. 941 $a 5 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021013247.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012030220.0 952 $l WAPD715 $d 20210924015124.0 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20191105010748.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190702020148.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DC1C2C28E19111E89124B82197128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search