Philip D. Beidler Livres

The essays blend personal recollections with cultural history, exploring post-WWII America's political and social landscape. Beidler examines themes such as national indifference to the Holocaust and China, the impact of McCarthyism, and societal obsessions with smoking, drinking, and celebrity culture. He reflects on significant events like the Korean War, civil rights movement, and women's liberation, providing insightful commentary on these pivotal moments in American history through a unique lens of personal experience and historical analysis.

Offers a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday lives. Philip Beidler investigates the assimilation and pervasive presence of the idea of war in popular culture, the impulses behind the making of art out of war, and the debatably aimless trajectories of war itself.