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Title History wars : the Enola Gay and other battles for the American past / edited by Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt
Edition First edition
Published New York : Metropolitan Books, 1996

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 MELB  355.033073 Lin/Hwt  AVAILABLE
Description vi, 295 pages ; 21 cm
Contents Introduction: History Under Siege / Tom Engelhardt and Edward T. Linenthal -- 1. Anatomy of a Controversy / Edward T. Linenthal -- 2. Three Narratives of Our Humanity / John W. Dower -- 3. Patriotic Orthodoxy and American Decline / Michael S. Sherry -- 4. Whose History Is It Anyway? Memory, Politics, and Historical Scholarship / Paul Boyer -- 5. History at Risk: The Case of the Enola Gay / Richard H. Kohn -- 6. Culture War, History Front / Mike Wallace -- 7. Dangerous History: Vietnam and the "Good War" / Marilyn B. Young -- 8. The Victors and the Vanquished / Tom Engelhardt
Notes "An Owl book"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-291)
Subject Enola Gay (Bomber)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Historiography.
SUBJECT United States -- History, Military -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140341 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003738 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96007157 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
Author Engelhardt, Tom, 1944-
Linenthal, Edward Tabor, 1947-
LC no. 96000886
ISBN 080504387X paperback alkaline paper
0805043861 hardcover alkaline paper