Description
This is a unique look at how America during World War II gained strengths from early defeats such as Bataan or Corregidor. "Indomitable Will" resurrects the legacy of the first half-year of American combat during World War II - a legacy of pain, but not of woe. Historian Charles Kupfer recounts the story of the war's early defeats: Bataan, Corregidor, Wake Island, and Java Sea. Some of these battles remain evocative today; others are obscure; all were catastrophes for American arms. But, Kupfer asserts, later victories were made inevitable by the steeling effect of those initial disasters. Weaving together military, journalistic, political, and cultural histories, Kupfer argues that, by setting their collective will on victory, Americans in and out of uniform gained strength from their setbacks. "Indomitable Will" spells out how the nation turned early defeat into ultimate victory.
A unique look at how America during World War II gained strengths from early defeats such as Bataan or Corregidor.
About the Author
Charles Kupfer is Associate Professor of American Studies and History at Penn State Harrisburg. He is the author of We Felt the Flames: Hitler's Blitzkrieg, America's Story.
Reviews
"Near the start of this masterful narrative, Charles Kupfer asserts that the key to Franklin Roosevelt's presidential success was an "ability to frame the national discourse through his own rhetorical powers." Professor Kupfer might as well be talking about himself, for Indomitable Will provides a template for how cultural history ought to be written-with a scholar's attention to critical nuance, an anthropologist's insight into national character, a novelist's eye for human detail, and a foolproof ear for American lingo. Ranging freely across disciplines and genres, from military history to media studies, Indomitable Will is a marvelous and persuasive hybrid of a book, a creature as rarely encountered as the unicorn in the forests of American Studies: a work of original scholarship that will inform and entertain a popular audience." -Campbell McGrath, Philip and Patricia Frost Professor of Creative Writing, Florida International University
Book Information
ISBN 9780826410689
Author Charles Kupfer
Format Hardback
Page Count 456
Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 848g
A unique look at how America during World War II gained strengths from early defeats such as Bataan or Corregidor.
About the Author
Charles Kupfer is Associate Professor of American Studies and History at Penn State Harrisburg. He is the author of We Felt the Flames: Hitler's Blitzkrieg, America's Story.
Reviews
"Near the start of this masterful narrative, Charles Kupfer asserts that the key to Franklin Roosevelt's presidential success was an "ability to frame the national discourse through his own rhetorical powers." Professor Kupfer might as well be talking about himself, for Indomitable Will provides a template for how cultural history ought to be written-with a scholar's attention to critical nuance, an anthropologist's insight into national character, a novelist's eye for human detail, and a foolproof ear for American lingo. Ranging freely across disciplines and genres, from military history to media studies, Indomitable Will is a marvelous and persuasive hybrid of a book, a creature as rarely encountered as the unicorn in the forests of American Studies: a work of original scholarship that will inform and entertain a popular audience." -Campbell McGrath, Philip and Patricia Frost Professor of Creative Writing, Florida International University
Book Information
ISBN 9780826410689
Author Charles Kupfer
Format Hardback
Page Count 456
Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 848g
