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Article: The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II.(Review)
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- March 22, 1999
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The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II. Edited by Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. x, 346. $17.95.)
The American home front in World War II is recalled warmly in popular memory and cultural myth as a time of unprecedented national unity, years in which Americans stuck together in common cause. This is a historical half-truth, one among several that have lent a glow to the "Good War," and the essays in this fine collection subject it to careful scrutiny.
Several contributors focus on issues of race, gender, and class to portray a fragmented wartime social and ...