John E. Bodnar
Autor(a) de The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America
About the Author
John Bodnar is professor of history and director of the Oral History Research Center at Indiana University.
Obras de John E. Bodnar
Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (1992) 57 cópias
Immigrants and the Promise of American Life 1 exemplar(es)
Conclusion: The Culture of Everyday Life 1 exemplar(es)
Introduction 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: Documents and Essays (1993) — Contribuinte — 76 cópias
The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes) (2001) — Prefácio — 18 cópias
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- Nome padrão
- Bodnar, John E.
- Data de nascimento
- 1944-05-19
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
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- Obras
- 21
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 310
- Popularidade
- #76,069
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 33
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- 1
Its actual text though... didn't fulfill that promise. Not for me.
To be clear, this is a very well documented examination of much of the response to 9/11 and the War on Terror, from many divergent angles ranging from the personal and private to the governmental to the societal to the cultural. Bodnar does a tremendous job of highlighting facts that even as someone living through this history (though usually from several States away from the events he is describing at any given moment), I simply did not know and often had never heard of.
The problem is that this examination is very blatantly one sided, and even the language Bodnar chooses to use often reflects this blatant bias. Thus, for those that agree with this particular bias, this book will probably be much more well received than for those who disagree with it - and the level of one's beliefs either direction will likely reflect how such a person feels about this book in a similar manner.
In the end, there is nothing technically wrong with this text, other than the blatant bias - and therefore the bias itself is the basis for the removal of one star. Yet even there, the bias isn't *so* horrible as to rate the deduction of a second star, and there is a tremendous amount of needed history documented within these pages. Thus, I am satisfied at this time with the four stars I give the book. And yet, because of the bias, I cannot *highly* recommend the book and therefore it is...
Recommended.… (mais)