{"product_id":"a-date-which-will-live-pearl-harbor-in-american-memory-paperback","title":"A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily S. Rosenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecember 7, 1941--the date of Japan's surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor--is \"a date which will live\" in American history and memory, but the stories that will live and the meanings attributed to them are hardly settled. In movies, books, and magazines, at memorial sites and public ceremonies, and on television and the internet, Pearl Harbor lives in a thousand guises and symbolizes dozens of different historical lessons. In \u003ci\u003eA Date Which Will Live, \u003c\/i\u003ehistorian Emily S. Rosenberg examines the contested meanings of Pearl Harbor in American culture.\u003cbr\u003e\tRosenberg considers the emergence of Pearl Harbor's symbolic role within multiple contexts: as a day of infamy that highlighted the need for future U.S. military preparedness, as an attack that opened a \"back door\" to U.S. involvement in World War II, as an event of national commemoration, and as a central metaphor in American-Japanese relations. She explores the cultural background that contributed to Pearl Harbor's resurgence in American memory after the fiftieth anniversary of the attack in 1991. In doing so, she discusses the recent \"memory boom\" in American culture; the movement to exonerate the military commanders at Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband Kimmel and General Walter Short; the political mobilization of various groups during the culture and history \"wars\" of the 1990s, and the spectacle surrounding the movie \u003ci\u003ePearl Harbor.\u003c\/i\u003e Rosenberg concludes with a look at the uses of Pearl Harbor as a historical frame for understanding the events of September 11, 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily 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\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily S. Rosenberg is DeWitt Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eFinancial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930 \u003c\/i\u003e(also published by Duke University Press) and \u003ci\u003eSpreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890-1945. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eIn Our Times: America since World War II \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLiberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.66 x 5.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 02, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47279454093561,"sku":"9780822336372","price":43.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VWRaMjJkblcybTROSDhxajRMK3YrQT09.webp?v=1769022392","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/a-date-which-will-live-pearl-harbor-in-american-memory-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}