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Article: Myth and the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans in World War II.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2009
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Myth and the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans in World War II. By Kenneth D. Rose (London: Routledge Press, 2008. xvii plus 361 pp.).
A book like this one was probably inevitable. All of the popular sentiment about "The Greatest Generation" was bound to produce a more critical scholarly analysis. Even many members of that generation, most famously Andy Rooney, grew tired of the excessive adulation, aware as they were that they were no more or less special than the men and women of any other generation and, perhaps more importantly, that placing all of the men and women of the World War II generation under one giant label destroyed the tremendous ...