"Daddy's Gone to War"

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  • Author: William M. Tuttle
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0195096495
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 382

Explores the experiences of children (now men and women in their fifties and sixties) who grew up during World War II, in the context of developmental psychology, and argues that the war left an indelible imprint on them, not only in childhood but in adulthood as well.


Daddy's Gone to War

Daddy's Gone to War

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  • Author: William M. Tuttle
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  • ISBN: 9780197712405
  • Category : Children
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0


Into the Jungle!

Into the Jungle!

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  • Author: Jimmy Kugler
  • Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • ISBN: 1496842839
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 173

Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the Pacific War as fought by “Frogs” and “Toads,” humanoid creatures brutally committed to a kill-or-be-killed struggle. The history of American youth depends primarily on adult reminiscences of their own childhoods, adult testimony to the lives of youth around them, or surmises based on at best a few creative artifacts. The survival then of such a large collection of adolescent comic strips from America’s small-town Midwest is remarkable. Michael Kugler reproduces the never-before-published comics of his father’s adolescent imagination as a microhistory of American youth in that formative era. Also included in Into the Jungle! A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II are the likely comic book models for these stories and inspiration from news coverage in newspapers, radio, movies, and newsreels. Kugler emphasizes how US propaganda intended to inspire patriotic support for the war gave this young artist a license for his imagined violence. In a context of progressive American educational reform, these violent comic stories, often in settings modeled on the artist’s small Nebraska town, suggests a form of adolescent rebellion against moral conventions consistent with comic art’s reputation for “outsider” or countercultural expressions. Kugler also argues that these comics provide evidence for the transition in American taste from war stories to the horror comics of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Kugler’s thorough analysis of his father’s adolescent art explains how a small-town boy from the plains distilled the popular culture of his day for an imagined war he could fight on his audacious, even shocking terms.


Daughters Gone Wild, Dads Gone Crazy

Daughters Gone Wild, Dads Gone Crazy

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  • Author: Charles Stone
  • Publisher: Thomas Nelson
  • ISBN: 9780849904349
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

"First hand experience between a father and a rebellious daughter, and the steps they took to make the relationship better"--Provided by publisher.


"When is Daddy coming home?"

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  • Author: Richard Carlton Haney
  • Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
  • ISBN: 0870205595
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 160

World War II was coming to a close in Europe and Richard Haney was only four years old when the telegram arrived at his family's home in Janesville, Wisconsin. That moment, when Haney learned of his father's death in the final months of fighting, changed his and his mother's lives forever. In this emotionally powerful book, Haney, now a professional historian, explores the impact of war on an American family. Unlike many of America's 183,000 World War II orphans, Richard Haney has vivid memories of his father. He skillfully weaves together those memories with his parents' wartime letters and his mother's recollections to create a unique blend of history and memoir. Through his father's letters he reveals the war's effect on a man who fought in the Battle of the Bulge with the 17th Airborne but wanted nothing more than to return home, a man who expressed the feelings of thousands when he wrote to his wife, "I've seen and been through a lot but want to forget it all as soon as I can." Haney illuminates life on the home front in small-town America as well, describing how profoundly the war changed such communities. At the same time, his memories of an idyllic family life make clear what soldiers like Clyde Haney felt they were defending. With "When Is Daddy Coming Home?", Richard Haney makes an exceptional contribution to the literature on the Greatest Generation - one that is both devastatingly personal and representative of what families all over America endured during that testing time. No one who reads this powerful story will come away unmoved.


Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

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  • Author: Penelope Mortimer
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1946022268
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 264

"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 1958 by Michael Joseph Ltd., London and in the United States in 1959 as Cave of Ice by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York."--Title page verso.


Bringing Up Daddy

Bringing Up Daddy

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  • Author: Stella Bruzzi
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1838714731
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 360

Offering a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad, looking at important Hollywood fathers and discussing films from many genres, this book adopts a multi-faceted theoretical approach, making use of psychoanalysis, sociology and masculinity studies and contextualising the father figure within both Hollywood and American history.


Rethinking Cold War Culture

Rethinking Cold War Culture

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  • Author: Peter J. Kuznick
  • Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
  • ISBN: 1588344150
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 240

This anthology of essays questions many widespread assumptions about the culture of postwar America. Illuminating the origins and development of the many threads that constituted American culture during the Cold War, the contributors challenge the existence of a monolithic culture during the 1950s and thereafter. They demonstrate instead that there was more to American society than conformity, political conservatism, consumerism, and middle-class values. By examining popular culture, politics, economics, gender relations, and civil rights, the contributors contend that, while there was little fundamentally new about American culture in the Cold War era, the Cold War shaped and distorted virtually every aspect of American life. Interacting with long-term historical trends related to demographics, technological change, and economic cycles, four new elements dramatically influenced American politics and culture: the threat of nuclear annihilation, the use of surrogate and covert warfare, the intensification of anticommunist ideology, and the rise of a powerful military-industrial complex. This provocative dialogue by leading historians promises to reshape readers' understanding of America during the Cold War, revealing a complex interplay of historical norms and political influences.


Babysitter

Babysitter

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  • Author: Miriam Forman-Brunell
  • Publisher: NYU Press
  • ISBN: 0814728952
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 328

In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history. --from publisher description.


Meet Joe Copper

Meet Joe Copper

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  • Author: Matthew L. Basso
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 022604422X
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 375

“I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun.” So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, fields, and mines while their compatriots fought in the battlefields of Europe and on the bloody beaches of the Pacific. The male experience of working and living in wartime America is rarely examined, but the story of men like these provides a crucial counter-narrative to the national story of Rosie the Riveter and GI Joe that dominates scholarly and popular discussions of World War II. In Meet Joe Copper, Matthew L. Basso describes the formation of a powerful, white, working-class masculine ideology in the decades prior to the war, and shows how it thrived—on the job, in the community, and through union politics. Basso recalls for us the practices and beliefs of the first- and second-generation immigrant copper workers of Montana while advancing the historical conversation on gender, class, and the formation of a white ethnic racial identity. Meet Joe Copper provides a context for our ideas of postwar masculinity and whiteness and finally returns the men of the home front to our reckoning of the Greatest Generation and the New Deal era.