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| Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial | 
 enlarge | Author: Kristin Ann Hass
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 241647
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 205
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0520213173
Dewey Decimal Number: 959.70436
EAN: 9780520213173
ASIN: 0520213173
Publication Date: August 7, 1998
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Condition: Frayed corners, markings inside, in OK condition. I'll try to mail it the same day you order. [4951]
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On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic sampling represents an attempt by ordinary Americans to come to terms with a multitude of unnamed losses as well as to take part in the ongoing debate of how this war should be remembered. Hass explores the restless memory of the Vietnam War and an American public still grappling with its commemoration. In doing so it considers the ways Americans have struggled to renegotiate the meanings of national identity, patriotism, community, and the place of the soldier, in the aftermath of a war that ruptured the ways in which all of these things have been traditionally defined. Hass contextualizes her study of this phenomenon within the history of American funerary traditions (in particular non-Anglo traditions in which material offerings are common), the history of war memorials, and the changing symbolic meaning of war. Her evocative analysis of the site itself illustrates and enriches her larger theses regarding the creation of public memory and the problem of remembering war and the resulting causalities--in this case not only 58,000 soldiers, but also conceptions of masculinity, patriotism, and working-class pride and idealism.
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 Carried to the Wall, by Kristin Ann Hass January 10, 2004
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book is tripe. I was forced to read it for a college class, and am disappointed by the lack of substance in the book. While it claims to be about tributes to fallen soldiers in Vietnam, it spends a substantial portion of the time discussing battle monuments of the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, along with an extended discussion of the dedication of the Gettysburg battlegrounds. It looks too far into many of the objects left, such as the bike tube and nursing pads. Frankly, I'm ashamed to be associated with the same instution as this woman. Don't read it if you don't have to.
 very emotional, could use some deeper probing November 24, 1999
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
i read this book for a class i was taking in college. some of the lists and letters haas reproduced made me cry...most books that people read in college don't make people cry. haas' main (and one of her only) shortcomings was her apple pie, americana approach to what people left. many latino-americans and african-americans fought in vietnam and the material and social analysis is, at times, very white bread. very good overall. moving and interesting.
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