{"product_id":"pain-is-weakness-leaving-the-lyle-jeremy-rubin-9781645037095","title":"Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn honest reckoning with the war on terror, masculinity, and the violence of American hegemony abroad, at home, and on the psyche, from a veteran whose convictions came undone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When Lyle Jeremy Rubin first arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School, he was convinced that the \"war on terror\" was necessary to national security. He also subscribed to a strict code of manhood that military service conjured and perpetuated. Then he began to train and his worldview shattered. Honorably discharged five years later, Rubin returned to the United States with none of his beliefs, about himself or his country, intact. \u003c\/p\u003e In Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body, Rubin narrates his own undoing, the profound disillusionment that took hold of him on bases in the U.S. and Afghanistan. He both examines his own failings as a participant in a prescribed masculinity and the failings of American empire, examining the racialized and class hierarchies and culture of conquest that constitute the machinery of U.S. imperialism. The result is a searing analysis and the story of one man's personal and political conversion, told in beautiful prose by an essayist, historian, and veteran transformed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lyle Jeremy Rubin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1645037096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781645037095\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bold Type Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.20w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2022","brand":"Lyle Jeremy Rubin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990048604415,"sku":"9781645037095","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1a057ea6-2796-412d-9661-f9cf32c810c4.jpg?v=1683302717","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pain-is-weakness-leaving-the-lyle-jeremy-rubin-9781645037095","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}