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History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
Author: Edward T. Linethal
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From the taming of the West to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics. What kind of history Americans should read, see, or fund is no longer merely a matter of professional interest to teachers, historians, and museum curators. Everywhere now, history is increasingly being held hostage, but to what end and why? In History Wars, eight prominent historians consider the angry swirl of emotions that now surrounds public memory. Included are trenchant essays by Paul Boyer, John W. Dower, Tom Engelhardt, Richard H. Kohn, Edward Linenthal, Micahel S. Sherry, Marilyn B. Young, and Mike Wallace. **From Kirkus Reviews Linenthal (Preserving Memory The Struggle to Create Americas Holocaust Museum, 1995, etc.), Engelhardt, and six other historians use a bitter controversy to consider Americas attitudes toward its past. The curators of the Smithsonian Institutions National Air and Space Museum planned an ambitious exhibit centered on the Enola Gay, the airplane used to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. The exhibit, marking the events 50th anniversary, would have described the intense desire to end the war that led to the bombing, but also the way the bombings nightmarish effects infected the world with fear of nuclear annihilation. Conservatives claimed the exhibit would be anti-nuclear and anti-war, throwing into question the decision to drop the bomb, and would transform the Enola Gays crew from heroes to terrorists. Under relentless attack, the museum backed down and its director resigned. The Enola Gay is now displayed virtually out of context. These essays take the controversy as the starting point for ruminations on American attitudes toward war, the nuclear age, and, with exceptional insight, history itself. The writers are not uniformly supportive of the planned exhibit Former air force chief historian Richard H. Kohn concludes, for instance, that it wasnt a balanced presentation New York University history professor Marilyn B. Young says that it was. But there is unanimous regret among the essayists that an opportunity was lost, as Kohn writes, codeto inform the American people . . . about warfare, airpower, World War II and a turning point in world history. The Enola Gay conflict, writes University of Wisconsin history professor Paul Boyer, was aboutcodethe disparity between the mythic past inscribed in popular memory and the past that is the raw material of historical scholarship. This round of history wars, conclude the writers in this excellent collection, was won by the myth-makers. -- 1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. Review In their illuminating explorations of contemporary American struggles with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these essays contribute to much-needed nuclear-age wisdom. Robert Jay Lifton Informative and compelling. Eric Foner A stimulating and revelatory work. Studs Terkel
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From the taming of the West to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics. What kind of history Americans should read, see, or fund is no longer merely a matter of professional interest to teachers, historians, and museum curators. Everywhere now, history is increasingly being held hostage, but to what end and why? In History Wars, eight prominent historians consider the angry swirl of emotions that now surrounds public memory. Included are trenchant essays by Paul Boyer, John W. Dower, Tom Engelhardt, Richard H. Kohn, Edward Linenthal, Micahel S. Sherry, Marilyn B. Young, and Mike Wallace. **From Kirkus Reviews Linenthal (Preserving Memory The Struggle to Create Americas Holocaust Museum, 1995, etc.), Engelhardt, and six other historians use a bitter controversy to consider Americas attitudes toward its past. The curators of the Smithsonian Institutions National Air and Space Museum planned an ambitious exhibit centered on the Enola Gay, the airplane used to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. The exhibit, marking the events 50th anniversary, would have described the intense desire to end the war that led to the bombing, but also the way the bombings nightmarish effects infected the world with fear of nuclear annihilation. Conservatives claimed the exhibit would be anti-nuclear and anti-war, throwing into question the decision to drop the bomb, and would transform the Enola Gays crew from heroes to terrorists. Under relentless attack, the museum backed down and its director resigned. The Enola Gay is now displayed virtually out of context. These essays take the controversy as the starting point for ruminations on American attitudes toward war, the nuclear age, and, with exceptional insight, history itself. The writers are not uniformly supportive of the planned exhibit Former air force chief historian Richard H. Kohn concludes, for instance, that it wasnt a balanced presentation New York University history professor Marilyn B. Young says that it was. But there is unanimous regret among the essayists that an opportunity was lost, as Kohn writes, codeto inform the American people . . . about warfare, airpower, World War II and a turning point in world history. The Enola Gay conflict, writes University of Wisconsin history professor Paul Boyer, was aboutcodethe disparity between the mythic past inscribed in popular memory and the past that is the raw material of historical scholarship. This round of history wars, conclude the writers in this excellent collection, was won by the myth-makers. -- 1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. Review In their illuminating explorations of contemporary American struggles with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these essays contribute to much-needed nuclear-age wisdom. Robert Jay Lifton Informative and compelling. Eric Foner A stimulating and revelatory work. Studs Terkel
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