TY - GEN T1 - Crash course : from the good war to the forever war T2 - War Culture A1 - Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce), 1934-2024 LA - English PP - New Brunswick, NJ PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1100978928 AB - 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. He saw 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. More than just a memoir or a history book, Crash Course gives readers a unique firsthand look at the building of the American empire and the damage it has wrought. Shocking and gripping as any thriller, it exposes the endless deception of the American public, and reveals from inside how and why many millions of Americans have been struggling for decades against our own government in a fight for peace and justice. CN - E745 .F73 2018 SN - 9781978800946 SN - 1978800940 SN - 9781978800922 SN - 1978800924 SN - 9781978800915 SN - 9781978801202 KW - Historians : United States : Biography. KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 : Protest movements. KW - War and society : United States : History : 20th century. KW - United States : History, Military : 20th century. KW - États-Unis : Histoire militaire : 20e siècle. KW - Historiens : États-Unis : Biographies. KW - Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 : Contestation. KW - Guerre et société : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - HISTORY : General. KW - Historians KW - Protest movements KW - War and society KW - United States KW - 1900-1999 KW - Military history KW - Biographies KW - History ER -