History wars : the Enola Gay and other battles for the American past / edited by Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt - First edition - vi, 295 pages

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-291).

Introduction : history under siege / Tom Engelhardt and Edward T. Linenthal Anatomy of a controversy / Edward T. Linenthal Three narratives of our humanity / John W. Dower Patriotic orthodoxy and American decline / Michael S. Sherry Whose history is it anyway? Memory, politics, and historical scholarship / Paul Boyer History at risk : the case of the Enola Gay / Richard H. Kohn Culture war, history front / Mike Wallace Dangerous history : Vietnam and the "good war" / Marilyn B. Young The victors and the vanquished / Tom Engelhardt

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Enola Gay (Bomber)


Vietnam War, 1961-1975


United States--History, Military--20th century
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945

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