To Hasten the Homecoming
How Americans Fought World War II through the Media
By (author) Jordan Braverman
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Publication date:
21 August 2015Length of book:
288 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781442248755
Jordan Braverman's eloquent narrative account of media participation in World War II is comprehensive enough to satisfy the most rigorous academic standards, but written to be accessible to all readers. To Hasten the Homecoming is an important cultural history of the American home front during World War II, which examines how popular culture reinforced patriotic sentiments and united an innocent country to defeat a common enemy. Braverman provides readers with a deep insight into America's national identity and self-perceptions during the most savage war in history.
Concise, richly researched, wide-angled, a quarry of information for readers under fifty, and a deep well of nostalgia for those who worked through, or were caught up in, that most terrible war in history.