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A probing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war?

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From the patriotic nostalgia of LIFE'S PICTURE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II to the weary disillusionment of THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES to the moral ambiguity of FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, a powerful mythology of the war developed from films. Here is a fascinating guided tour of America's pop culture archives of WWII. 22 photos.

In this book, Beidler charts the ongoing achievements of the men and women who first gained public notice as Vietnam authors who are now recognized as major literary interpreters of our national life and culture at large.

This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels.

This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels. Beidler examines the work of well-known writers such as humorist Johnson J. Hooper, and takes on other classic pieces like Albert J. Pickett's History of Alabama. Beidler also considers lesser-known works like Lewis B. Sewall's verse satire The Adventures of S...

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As a writer, Philip D. Beidler has often drawn on his combat experience in Vietnam and his deep engagement with American popular culture. His essays tap these sources in powerful, truth-telling ways. In American Wars, American Peace, another voice emerges, distinct yet also tied to Beidlers wartime memories and his love of literature, film, and music. It is the voice of one of the baby-boom progeny of the Greatest Generation who at home and ab...

American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam is a perceptive and evocative book that is both a comprehensive discussion of the literature of the war and a study of literature and literary consciousness considered in relation to the larger process of cultural myth-making.

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 war. Each passing year, he says, dulls our sense of immediacy about Vietnams costs, opening wider the temptation to make it something more necessary, neatly contained, and justifiable than it should ever become. Here Beidler draws on deeply personal memories to refl...

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 consciousness, and vice versa.

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 blindness toward the Holocaust and a rising China, the canker of McCarthyism, ascendant cultures of hard smoking and heavy drinking, the worship of cars and film idols, and the chronic fear of an always-possible nuclear apocalypse. In lively, driving prose, he recalls vei...

This treasury of Alabama fiction showcases the rich literary heritage of the state.Many Voices, Many Rooms: A New Anthology of Alabama Writers is a companion volume to the extremely popular Art of Fiction in the Heart of Dixie: An Anthology of Alabama Writers. The earlier work is now a classic in its own right, but no single volume can do justice to the wealth and variety of Alabama fiction. Adding to the bounty, this new anthology contains wo...

Beautiful War is a probing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war?

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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 ranging from The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five to Carlos Casteneda's The Teachings of Don Juan and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves. Represented as well are such works of revered elders as Hermann Hess...