The Good War's Greatest Hits: World War II and American Remembering - Philip D. Beidler - Google Books

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The glow of 1945 persists as a kind of beacon for American society, symbolic of an era when good and evil were easily defined. This image is at the center of Philip D. Beidler's entertaining look at the way World War II reshaped American popular culture.…