Includes the words of:
William Jennings Bryan
Emma Goldman
Eugene V. Debs
W.E.B. Du Bois
Charles Lindbergh
David Dellinger
Ring Lardner Jr.
John Steinbeck
Dwight Macdonald
Thomas Merton
John Hope Franklin
Muhammad Ali
Noam Chomsky
Daniel Berrigan
Herbert Marcuse
Marvin Gaye
J. Anthony Lukas
Richard Nixon
Denise Levertov
The Dead Kennedys
Sydney Schanberg
George Packer
Christopher Hitchens
Charles Simic
and many others
Home Fronts
A Wartime America Reader
Edited by Michael S. Foley and Brendan P. O’Malley
paperback
$27.95
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL — An illuminating documentary history that reveals the effects of U.S. Military ventures overseas on more than a century of American life at home
Who are the heroes that fight your war?
Mothers who have no say.
But my duty’s done so for God’s sake leave one!
And don’t take my darling boy away.
—ANTIWAR SONG CIRCA 1916
Mothers who have no say.
But my duty’s done so for God’s sake leave one!
And don’t take my darling boy away.
—ANTIWAR SONG CIRCA 1916
The United States has been at war for seventy of the past one hundred years. And even as American soldiers have fought overseas, war has profoundly influenced almost every aspect of American society on the home front—as this startling collection of wartime letters, song lyrics, poems, editorial cartoons, newspaper articles, leaflets, and government documents (from the Spanish-American War and World War I to the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the war in Iraq) reveals.
Home Fronts offers a vivid cross-section of American intellectual, political, and cultural life in wartime over the past century. Here are brief excerpts—set into historical context with concise introductions—from the most important work by intellectual luminaries, political activists, poets, songwriters, and presidents.
Across the rich variety of social commentary, political critique, and artistic expression—which covers the full spectrum from pro-war to peacenik—Home Fronts brings into sharp focus the startling continuities and revealing contrasts between past and present wartime experiences. A major historical resource, Home Fronts will also be an important intellectual tool for anyone contemplating the impact of war in our own time.
Michael S. Foley is an associate professor of history at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and College of Staten Island and the author of Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War. Brendan P. O'Malley is currently a PhD student in history at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaches U.S. and world history at Brooklyn College.
Home Fronts offers a vivid cross-section of American intellectual, political, and cultural life in wartime over the past century. Here are brief excerpts—set into historical context with concise introductions—from the most important work by intellectual luminaries, political activists, poets, songwriters, and presidents.
Across the rich variety of social commentary, political critique, and artistic expression—which covers the full spectrum from pro-war to peacenik—Home Fronts brings into sharp focus the startling continuities and revealing contrasts between past and present wartime experiences. A major historical resource, Home Fronts will also be an important intellectual tool for anyone contemplating the impact of war in our own time.
Michael S. Foley is an associate professor of history at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and College of Staten Island and the author of Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War. Brendan P. O'Malley is currently a PhD student in history at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaches U.S. and world history at Brooklyn College.
Fall 2008
paperback
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 656 pages
978-1-59558-014-6
paperback
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 656 pages
978-1-59558-014-6
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