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Late Thoughts on an Old War
Philip D. Beidler, who served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, sees less and less of the hard-won perspective of the common soldier in what America has made of that …
Scriptures for a Generation
At the heart of Scriptures for a Generation are dozens of detailed entries discussing individual writers and the particular importance of their texts - bona fide '60s classics …
Great Beyond
Essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality-forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni …
Art of Fiction in the Heart of Dixie
Mythologizing of Mark Twain
Readers of Mark Twain seldom doubt his genius, but defining that genius and locating its source continue to challenge students of American literature. Equally elusive is an …
The Victory Album
In these essays, a combination of personal remembrance and broad-stroke cultural history, Philip Beidler addresses the culture and politics of post?WWII America: the national …
American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam
In his exploration of the ways in which writers have tried to make sense of the Vietnam experience, Philip D. Beidler brings to light a whole literature that in its moments of …
Portraits of Remembrance
Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflict. Although photography and moving pictures …
The Island Called Paradise
A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler’s The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American …
Victory Album
A vivid and penetrating history, personal and social, of growing up in post-1945 America A pervasive feeling at the end of World War II, notes Philip D. Beidler, was that Americans …
Rewriting America
In ""Re-Writing America"", Beidler charts the ongoing achievements of the men and women who first gained public notice as Vietnam authors and are now recognized as major literary …
Late Thoughts on an Old War
Philip D. Beidler, who served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, sees less and less of the hard-won perspective of the common soldier in what America has made of that …