| How I Learned That I Could Push the Button First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Gold, Jerome (Author) |
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ISBN: 0930773675 ISBN-13: 9780930773670 Publisher: Black Heron Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Persian Gulf War (1991) - History | United States - 20th Century - History | Asia - Southeast Asia |
| Dewey: 959 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.73" W x 8.82" (0.75 lbs) 157 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These essays compose a compact history of the effects of the war in Viet Nam on American life. Colored by the impact of the war, they portray some of the ways in which we looked at later events. Certain themes arise again and again-the perceived threat presented by the Other, the permeability of borders that separate like from other, the tension between loyalty to one's fellows and obligation to nation or country or society, the distrust of abstraction and those who use abstraction to manipulate us. These essays, drawing on the author's direct experience of one war and his peripheral experience of another, may be considered a companion volume to his acclaimed novel, Sergeant Dickinson. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gold, Jerome: - Jerome Gold is the author of thirteen books, including the fiction collection, The Moral Life of Soldiers, and Paranoia & Heartbreak, a memoir of the years he spent as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for children. He lives in Seattle, Washington. |