{"product_id":"9780820320014","title":"The Good War's Greatest Hits: World War II and American Remembering","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe glow of 1945 persists as a kind of beacon for American society, symbolic of an era when good and evil were easily defined. This image is at the center of Philip D. Beidler's entertaining look at the way World War II reshaped American popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe legend of the \"Good War\" was fostered by wartime propaganda and reinforced in the aftermath of victory through books, the news media, movies, songs, and television. Beidler captures the aura of the times as he chronicles the production histories of more than a dozen projects with wartime themes, examining how books and plays evolved into films, how stars were considered and selected, technical problems and personality conflicts during production, and the public's reactions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the upbeat tempo of the musical \u003ci\u003eSouth Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e to the weary disillusionment of \u003ci\u003eThe Best Years of Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, from the patriotic nostalgia of \u003ci\u003eLife's Picture History of World War II\u003c\/i\u003e to the moral ambiguity of \u003ci\u003eFrom Here to Eternity\u003c\/i\u003e, a powerful mythology of the war developed. As a consequence, the line between fact and fiction has blurred for the war generation and its inheritors, and Hollywood's version of the Good War has become enshrined as historical fact in the nation's collective memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021107314928,"sku":"9780820320014","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780820320014_p0.jpg?v=1763751661","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780820320014","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}