Love and Death in the Great War by Andrew J. Huebner
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Overview: Americans today harbor no strong or consistent collective memory of the First World War. Ask why the country fought or what they accomplished, and “democracy” is the most likely if vague response. The circulation of confusing or lofty rationales for intervention began as soon as President Woodrow Wilson secured a war declaration in April 1917. Yet amid those shifting justifications, Love and Death in the Great War argues, was a more durable and resonant one: Americans would fight for home and family. Officials in the military and government, grasping this crucial reality, invested the war with personal meaning, as did popular culture. “Make your mother proud of you/And the Old Red White and Blue” went George Cohan’s famous tune “Over There.” Federal officials and their allies in public culture, in short, told the war story as a love story.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History > Military > World War
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