Home Fronts

"From the Spanish-American War to Iraq, America's fights overseas have reverberated powerfully on the home front. A timely collection of wartime letters, song lyrics, poems, editorial cartoons, newspaper articles, leaflets, and government documents, Home Fronts offers a vivid cross-section of American intellectual, political, and cultural life in wartime over the past century." "Here are brief readings - fully set into context by historians Michael S. Foley and Brendan P. O'Malley - from the most important work by intellectual luminaries, political activists, poets, songwriters, and presidents, including the words of William Jennings Bryan, Emma Goldman, W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles Lindbergh, Muhammad Ali, Noam Chomsky, and many others. Across this rich tapestry of social commentary, political critique, and artistic expression - which covers the full spectrum from pro-war to peacenick - Home Fronts brings into sharp focus the startling continuities and revealing contrasts between past and present wartime experiences."--BOOK JACKET.