The Long Arc of War Experience for Americans. A Brief Introduction: Veterans Face the Challenge of American Fantasyland at War -- On Going to War the American Way -- America's Recent War Experience Comes Home in Imaginative Texts. The Efforts of Journalists and Writers of Creative Nonfiction to Deliver War for Readers at Home -- The Contribution of Films, from The Hurt Locker to American Sniper with Many Films Ignored -- Poets Capture War in Brief for a Small Audience -- American Fiction (and Hellish Truth) from Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- Veterans Lost as Distractions Rule in Fantasyland America. American Fantasyland in Time of War: the Hell Veterans Face at Home -- America and Future Wars: Fantasyland Ready for More War.
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