A Date Which Will Live

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Emily S. Rosenberg

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"Emily S. Rosenberg has given us a fine, concise study of war, memory, and mythmaking in America that will prove equally appealing to teachers, students, and general readers."--John W. Dower, author of "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II"

Zusammenfassung
How Pearl Harbor has been written about, thought of, and manipulated in American culture.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I. Signifying Pearl Harbor: The First Fifty Years 9

1. Infamy: Reinvigorating American Unity and Power 11
2. Backdoor Deceit: Contesting the New Deal 34
3. Representations of Race and Japanese-American Relations 53
4. Commemoration of Sacrifice 71
   II. Reviving Pearl Harbor after 1991 99
5. Bilateral Relations: Pearl Harbor's Half-Century Anniversary and the Apology Controversies 101
6. The Memory Boom and the "Greatest Generation" 113
7. The Kimmel Crusade, the HIstory Wars, and the Republican Revival 126
8. Japanese Americans: Identity and Memory Culture 140
9. Spectacular History 155
10. Day of Infamy: September 11, 2001 174
    Notes 191
    Bibliography 213
    Index 229