The Madness of It All: Essays on War, Literature, and American Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780786413331)

""I cannot begin to count the number of times over the past 37 years that I have wished I had never heard of Vietnam, let alone fought in the Vietnam War. That experience has haunted my days. It has troubled my nights. It has shaped my identity and colored the way I see the world and everything in it""--from the Preface. W.D. Ehrhart, called ""one of the great poets and writers of nonfiction produced by the Vietnam War"" by The Nation, here presents 43 essays, whose topics include not only the Gulf, Vietnam, and Korean wars, the conflict between Israel and Palestine, war and journalism, and American war poetry, but also junk mail, the Internet, the IRS, tugboats, drawbridges, race relations, the justice system, health care, small town life in America, nicotine addiction, the bravado of youth, honesty and American culture, the rhetoric of national mythology, and presidential isolation, among others.

Author: W. D. Ehrhart
ISBN-10: 0786413336
ISBN-13: 9780786413331
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Language: English
Published: 07/22/2002
Pages: 283
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.58w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/15/2002 pg. 84