War's Wake: How a GI-Bill veteran and a sophomore lost their way in the time of Harry Truman and Alger Hiss and fell into paradise on a magical island in Washington ParkXlibris Corporation, 13 de set. de 2005 - 332 páginas A Love Story from the Aftermath of World War II THEY SEEMED MADE FOR EACH OTHER: young and in love, and filled with dreams. But something went terribly wrong. Was it the awful aftermath of the war? Or something more? Something incomprehensible. Something never anticipated or perceived. On a university campus bulging with ex-GIs, a traumatized combat veteran and an idealistic sophomore fell madly in love. Years later, the long-dead sophomore, invading his computer as he tries to make a novel of his life, lures him back to reprise what went wrong. Their bittersweet reassessments and besotted indulgences provide a wacky tour of Truman-era morality, a sobering look at postwar USA, and an ardent time-travel love story about memory, commitment, and the decisive decisions that frame our lives. Along the way readers may: Join the American Veterans Committee (AVC), a new WW II veterans organization with the idealistic slogan "Citizens First, Veterans Second"; Cheer Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Charles Bolte, Cord Meyer, and others as they battle the American Communist Party for control of AVC; Integrate a bar near the campus that refused to serve Blacks; Attend a seminar led by Alger Hiss, later accused as a Soviet spy; Go to a riotous Communist Party rally and emerge intact and wiser; Vote for Thomas Dewey, Strom Thurmond, Harry Truman, or Henry Wallace in the 1948 presidential election; Get married as a dazzled Episcopal priest mingles the Christian Science of Mary Baker Eddy with Saint Paul as the lights go low in the funky little Episcopal Church near the campus; and Relive that crazy and wonderful year, 1948, when in the glow of youth, the end of World War II, and the establishment of the United Nations, all the world seemed filled with promise even as the beginning of the Cold War cast ever-darkening shadows. Within this beautifully written, brainy, and often witty love story, are a plethora of observations about war and its repercussions, love and its consequences, memory and its caprices, writing and its perils, and death and its regenerations. "War ́s Wake" is a fun-to-read fantasy even within the poignant, nostalgic sadness of its main story line. Order here online or via TOLL-FREE PHONE: 1-888-795-4274 "War ́s Wake," the novel, is a sequel to the memoir "Dear Captain, et al.: the Agonies and the Ecstasies of War and Memory" World War II love stories Message board |
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... ............................... 71 Chapter Seven BIG LIE, LITTLE JOKE, MARY B. EDDY, PAUL OFTAURSIS ........................ 83 Chapter Eight SO HAPPY, SO REALLY HAPPY ............................................................
... ............................... 71 Chapter Seven BIG LIE, LITTLE JOKE, MARY B. EDDY, PAUL OFTAURSIS ........................ 83 Chapter Eight SO HAPPY, SO REALLY HAPPY ............................................................
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... Mary, the girl whose letters had gotten him through the war and whom, in fear of commitment, he had so recently abandoned. Of Alice, the flaxen- haired Scottish lassie whose loving arms had smothered the war demons for a time. Of ...
... Mary, the girl whose letters had gotten him through the war and whom, in fear of commitment, he had so recently abandoned. Of Alice, the flaxen- haired Scottish lassie whose loving arms had smothered the war demons for a time. Of ...
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... the next age. Proof that pursuit of such ideas took priority over satisfaction of libidinal desires could be found almost every day on the secluded lawn behind the Mary Reed Library. Every time 34 ALLAN WILFORD HOWERTON.
... the next age. Proof that pursuit of such ideas took priority over satisfaction of libidinal desires could be found almost every day on the secluded lawn behind the Mary Reed Library. Every time 34 ALLAN WILFORD HOWERTON.
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... Mary Reed Library. Every time Will tried to transport Keynes into the head of his daytime companion, she proffered other alternatives for his input to her education. Had he not refused— foolishly, Will later surmised—he would have been ...
... Mary Reed Library. Every time Will tried to transport Keynes into the head of his daytime companion, she proffered other alternatives for his input to her education. Had he not refused— foolishly, Will later surmised—he would have been ...
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... Mary Reed Library and the classical charm of Margery Reed Hall. The funky yellow street car, old Number 8, rollicking on its shiny rails along Evans Avenue. The soft, luscious feel of the thick green lawn soothing our back sides as we ...
... Mary Reed Library and the classical charm of Margery Reed Hall. The funky yellow street car, old Number 8, rollicking on its shiny rails along Evans Avenue. The soft, luscious feel of the thick green lawn soothing our back sides as we ...
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Chapter Seven | 83 |
Chapter Nine | 100 |
Chapter Eleven | 120 |
Chapter Thirteen | 138 |
Chapter Sixteen | 170 |
Chapter Seventeen | 187 |
Chapter Nineteen | 204 |
Chapter Twenty | 217 |
Chapter TwentyTwo | 238 |
Chapter TwentyFour | 260 |
Chapter TwentyFive | 274 |
Acknowledgments | 327 |
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