This Is Not Who We Are

America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue

Zachary Shore (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

348 Seiten

2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-20344-9 (ISBN)

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This Is Not Who We Are examines America's struggle to be good once it became an undisputed superpower. A unique and compelling insight into how a country's humanity affects us all, this book is for lovers of American history and those who look to the past to question the present.

What kind of country is America? Zachary Shore tackles this polarizing question by spotlighting some of the most morally muddled matters of WWII. Should Japanese Americans be moved from the west coast to prevent sabotage? Should the German people be made to starve as punishment for launching the war? Should America drop atomic bombs to break Japan's will to fight? Surprisingly, despite wartime anger, most Americans and key officials favored mercy over revenge, yet a minority managed to push their punitive policies through. After the war, by feeding the hungry, rebuilding Western Europe and Japan, and airlifting supplies to a blockaded Berlin, America strove to restore the country's humanity, transforming its image in the eyes of the world. A compelling story of the struggle over racism and revenge, This Is Not Who We Are asks crucial questions about the nation's most agonizing divides.

Zachary Shore is Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley's Institute of European Studies, and a National Security Visiting Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He is the author of five previous books, including Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions and A Sense of the Enemy: The High-Stakes History of Reading Your Rival's Mind.

List of figures; Prologue: The Friendship Train; Introduction: From vengeance to virtue; Part I. Enemies:; 1. Concentrate; 2. Sabotage; 3. Coordinate; 4. Cover-Up; 5. Disintegrate; 6. Collude; 7. Deny; 8. Maneuver; 9. Regret; 10. Fallout; 11. Reckoning; Part II. Saviors:; 12. Rescue; 13. Sacrifice; 14. Reform; 15. Revive; 16. Hunger; 17. Resurrect; 18. Uplift; 19. Atone; 20. Afterlife; Acknowledgments; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 235 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-009-20344-4 / 1009203444
ISBN-13	978-1-009-20344-9 / 9781009203449
Zustand	Neuware